World War II Chronicle: September 22, 1942
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Page three reports that a crews are building a new base for training Navy Seabees training base near Williamsburg, Va. Camp Peary’s first trainees arrive in November and once the base is completed, there are 60 trade schools, a hog farm, and a prisoner of war camp for Kriegsmarine sailors. Washington wanted these POWs kept secret since they didn’t want the Nazis to know who survived and thus wouldn’t know that their Enigma machines had been compromised.
Before the war ends, the Seabees move to Camp Endicott in Rhode Island, but the base will turn into a training ground for clandestine Central Intelligence Agency officers, which is still in use today. The nickname “The Farm” comes from the pigs… Page five tells of Richard R. “Dick” Amerine, the former Kansas Jayhawk back-turned Marine aviator. He bailed out of his aircraft after the oxygen system failed, and then spent the next several days killing enemy soldiers with a captured pistol and a rock as he made his way back to friendly lines…
Sports section begins on page 12… Grantland Rice’s column on page 13 gives pros and cons for cancelling the upcoming Joe Louis-Billy Conn rematch.
Evening star. (Washington, D.C.), 22 September 1942. Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers. Lib. of Congress.
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