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...last March Charles Henry Koch, Minneapolis taxicab driver, got a telegram from the Navy that his son, Charles Herbert Koch, 20, had been killed March 12 in action at sea. A week later the body arrived. Father Koch, learning that the body had been disfigured, did not look at his son, preferring to remember...
Father Koch sent a frantic telegram to the Navy...
There have been small changes. Multiplied in hundreds of plants, they are invaluable. Last week a telegram for Knudsen ticked in to the War Department's Signal Office. It was from Nash-Kelvinator, now making airplane propellers: "Final production for July exceeded by more than 50% the figure for any previous month. This is a new high, a tribute to 'Knudsen month' inaugurated by your recent visit. Kindest personal regards...
...Your telegram at hand in regard to the death of Nason H. Billings. Sorry to hear but if you will please write me whatever information you can, in regard to it, it will be perfectly confidential. I will be glad to hear...
...Vice Admiral Doenitz went a telegram of congratulation from Germany's top sea lord, Admiral Erich Raeder. The telegram stated that total United Nations shipping sunk in all theaters in six months amounted to 616 ships-nearly 4,000,000 tons-most of it in American waters. This meant that not fewer than 20,000 seamen had been dumped into the ocean...