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A media consultant and communications director for Olin Business School at Washington University in St. Louis.

‘I’ll Bet Italy Is a Nice Place When It Doesn’t Rain’

February 25, 2012

“All we do here all day long is building fires to dry the mud off of our feet. The reason it takes all day to dry our feet is because we have to plow through the stuff continually to get enough wood to keep the fire going.” … More ‘I’ll Bet Italy Is a Nice Place When It Doesn’t Rain’

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A Palace Babe Might Have Seen on His Trek North Through Italy

February 24, 2012

By this point in the timeline of Babe’s letters, his unit should be based at Caserta, Italy. … More A Palace Babe Might Have Seen on His Trek North Through Italy

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His Fellow Radio Operator, a Package from Home and the Silly Army

February 23, 2012

“United States Army says that river bed is no longer a river bed, but a road, so now it is a road. I get quite a laugh out of that every time I think of it.” … More His Fellow Radio Operator, a Package from Home and the Silly Army

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‘A Little Yankee Ingenuity the Papers Are Always Talking About’

February 22, 2012

With a few spare parts, Babe the radio operator and some of his colleagues built a radio “to put us to sleep at night. The bloody thing plays good, too.” … More ‘A Little Yankee Ingenuity the Papers Are Always Talking About’

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Putting in His Order for a Package of Stuff; Living High off the Natives

February 21, 2012

“Don’t let anyone, I don’t care if it is the mayor, tell you you can’t send anything that I just mentioned because fellows here have received everything I want in packages already.” … More Putting in His Order for a Package of Stuff; Living High off the Natives

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Letters from an Everyman in WWII Frank D. "Babe" Mauro Born, Oct. 9, 1924 Died, May 4, 1945

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  • 168th Infantry Regiment Entry on Wikipedia
  • 34th Infantry Division Association
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  • 5th Army Mobile Radio Station Scrapbook
  • Hooah Wife and Friends
  • Letters from WW II
  • Military Postal History Society
  • Mount Kisco Veterans Memorial Plaques
  • PBS 'War Letter' Documentary Site
  • Red Bull Rising
  • War Department Pamphlet No. 21‑1
  • World War II Daughters

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  • US suspends joint defence effort with Canada dating back to World War II - Al Jazeera
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  • Barrington World War II veteran passes away at 101 years old - WPRI.com
  • During World War II, she dropped out of Robert Morris to join the Army. At age 100, the school awarded her an honorary degree. - Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
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  • Hamilton's last known World War II veteran interred at Toronto cemetery 7 months after his death - CBC
  • Community honors World War II veteran laid to rest in Massachusetts with no known family - WJAR
  • Henry Cavill’s Wild World War II Movie Hits Peacock Today - Yahoo
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