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East Sweden Tidings, Volume 1, Number 8, July, 1945

An issue of the "East Sweden Tidings", a monthly church newsletter, containing military updates, including the news that Pvt. Billy Gallaway, a former prisoner of war in Germany, has returned home; commentating, after two women joined the thresher crew, that women "do take the places of men"; reporting on the extensive damage and one death resulting from "The Cyclone" of June 18; expressing gratitude that the constitution for world peace has been written, including a "provision for codification… more

Date: July 1945

Creator: Dewey, Anston T.

Item Type: Newspaper

Partner: McCulloch County Historical Commission

[Letter from Vexa Sedivcova to Captain Charles R. Griggs, July 11, 1945]

Letter from Vexa Sedivcova to Captain Charles R. Griggs apologizing for not being able to see him before he left. She makes mention of the fact that "we, in Czechoslovakia, shall always remember the stay of the American Army here."

Date: July 11, 1945

Creator: Sedivcova, Vexa

Item Type: Letter

Partner: Pioneer City County Museum

[Extract from an Official Document of the United States Army Showing Personnel Reassignments]

Extract from an official military document containing the names and ranks of men in the 8th Armored Division and their new assignments to different battalions. Captain Charles R. Griggs was assigned to the 49th Armored Infantry Battalion, and the list continues on the back side and the page attached; the subheading shows which battalion, company, platoon, etc. the men underneath will belong too.

Date: July 3, 1945

Creator: United States. Army. Armored Division, 8th.

Item Type: Text