Word: alaska
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...what is known as Lower California. . . . There is a large and deep body of water between the peninsula and the mainland of Mexico. In that water a fleet could almost be hidden. . . ." Bob Reynolds had one more little matter to be taken up-Wrangel Island, off the coast of Alaska. The cardboard statesman waxed lyrical as he described the barren, snow-covered island, its possible importance to future air routes. The first landing there was by the U.S. Navy in 1881. "But now," cried Bob Reynolds, "it is my understanding that Russia claims it is her island. Now, while...
Other former Harvard students who have died in World War II are two sons of President Theodore Roosevelt '80, Kermit '12, who died "of natural causes" in Alaska last year, and Theodore '09, Assistant Division Commander of the 4th Division, who died in Normandy last July 12. Of the former President's four sons, three have now died in the service of their country...
...LIVE IN ALASKA-Constance Helmericks-Little, Brown...
...later married, adventurous, 23-year-old Bud Helmericks, an Arizona hunter who could handle a boat as smartly as he could bring down a wild duck. He wanted his new wife to become "a killer of bears." One hour after their wedding, Bud and Connie boarded a ship for Alaska, bent on a canoe trip down the Yukon, third longest river in North America...
...Live in Alaska is Connie's lively and well-told tale of their honeymoon...