Word: reykjavik
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Another bishop who dropped into Washington to witness the Episcopal consecration of Dr. Angus Dun was Dr. Sigurgeir Sigurdsson, Lutheran bishop of Iceland. Dr. Sigurdsson was on his way back to Reykjavik after representing Iceland's Government at the silver jubilee of the Icelandic National League in Winnipeg. He also had met as many as possible of the 12,000 Icelanders in the U.S. and assured Americans that U.S. troops are happy in Iceland. He concedes that the sudden influx of thousands of servicemen into Iceland created problems. But they were no worse than those of any U.S. small...
Bishop Gunnarsson got his early schooling from Icelandic Jesuits, continued it in Lutheran Denmark, later studied theology in Holland. Ordained in 1924, he returned to Reykjavik, took up his priestly duties at the Cathedral, which is the size of a U. S. Catholic parish church. There he will be enthroned when he returns from the U. S. shortly...
Humphrey and Frank L. Miller, ten other Army officers and men. All were buried last Saturday in the American cemetery at Reykjavik...
...Luftwaffe was yet to fulfill Hitler's promise of punishment. It raided the British coast ineffectively. One German bomber flew over Reykjavik, Iceland, but dropped no bombs. Another devastated an open field near a fishing village...
...pure cussedness none of them had ever seen anything like the job they had to do. The Army was everywhere, from Fort Dix to Chungking, from Reykjavik to Port Darwin. Country boys in khaki, with the hayseed barely combed out of their hair, soldiered at Khorram Shar within hiking distance of the muddy confluence of the Tigris and the Euphrates. Officers who had never been off the pavements set up camps on atolls in the Pacific or led men through the drifting fogs of the Aleutians to new homes that must be built. In the miasmas of Surinam...