Word: cerignola
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...state where debating once ranked as football does in Ohio, or basketball in Indiana, young George took eagerly to oratory as a high school student. World War II broadened McGovern's horizons beyond the prairie: as pilot of Dakota Queen, a B-24 Liberator heavy bomber based in Cerignola, Italy, he flew 35 missions over Nazi-occupied Eastern Europe, often through heavy antiaircraft fire. Once, with two of the four engines out, he nursed the plane to an emergency landing on a tiny airstrip on a Yugoslav island...
...mentioned by Moderator Virgilio Sommani in his list of faiths at whose disposal the Waldensian churches were placed was the Jewish faith. We held regular Friday night and also holiday services in the little Protestant chapel in Cerignola, and sometimes the Waldensian members would come in and watch...
Your Dec. 24 issue under Religion carried a reference to a U.S. Army chaplain who, finding the little Waldensian congregation in Cerignola without a pastor, took charge of it and "for a whole year exercised in that place a brotherly ministry. . . ." The man referred to was Chaplain Martin H. Scharlemann of the 43rd Air Service Group, which had its HQ in that town, and of which the undersigned was the historian...
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