THEY'RE IN THE ARMY NOW
Mae Peterson (left) of Sioux City and Nellie Osterlund of Des Moines, Iowa Lutheran hospital nurses, practice their salutes -- preparatory to leaving Des Moines for Camp Robinson, Ark. They will enter the army services next week.
Source: The Des Moines Tribune, January 1, 1941 (photo included)
TEN OF SWEA CITY’S YOUNG MEN FIGHT IN INVASION AREA.
(Too late for last week.)
Swea City: The news of the Allied Invasion of France was received here by citizens who were listening to late election returns. As the news became generally known next morning, the feeling of solemnity was deepened by the realization that at least ten young people from this community are in the combat zone. Records at the Herald office show upwards of 60 persons stationed in European and Mediterranean war theaters. Of this number, inquiry of relatives and a check on the records of the United Service Women kept by Historian Mildred Thorson show at least ten to be in England.
PETERSON HAS TWO.
Walter Peterson, a former Swea Cityan whose children have made their home with local relatives since the death of their mother, has a daughter and a son in England. Lt. Mae Peterson, army nurse, wrote some weeks ago that her hospital had everything in readiness to receive the wounded whenever invasion should begin. Her brother Leroy is believed to be in the fighting.
Source: The Algona Upper DesMoines, June 20, 1944
