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Married. Pfc. Alton W. Knappen-berger, 20, Nazi-slaying "one man army of Anzio"; and Ruth Eickhoff, 16, his home town sweetheart; in Red Hill, Pa. The Congressional Medal of Honor winner was told to "speak up" when applying for the license, later delayed the marriage ceremony by forgetting the document, had to run back...
...surroundings, had a decisive influence on its builders. San Francisco needed an airport before it needed a Fair, and the best place for an airport was determined as early as 1931 by the Junior Chamber of Commerce. Credit for putting two & two together is given to Air-enthusiast Henry Eickhoff Jr., who began thumping in 1933 for an exposition along with the airport, on the ground that each would help build the other. Three years more and a fleet of dredges appeared off the wooded hump of Yerba Buena Island between San Francisco and Oakland and began pumping black sand...