WITH THE AMERICAN FORCES
Among the American casualties in the Philippines many citizens of Czechoslovak origin. The Minnesota home town of two 1 s.-amen lost with the "Arizona" at Pearl- Barbour, is called New Prague' as a re-< minder of the size of the Czechoslovak colony in the United States. Its military strength alone is estimated at IoU, 1)00. The commander of the- Allied formation that brought down 28 Japanese machines near Rangoon was Robert Brouk, another * t>T• w»o •-» /* }' 'V- n - .
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 05, Issue 87, 5 August 1942, Page 6
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81WITH THE AMERICAN FORCES Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 05, Issue 87, 5 August 1942, Page 6
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