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May 2013

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Now Available! War Stories Volume I & II
Available for sale via Paypal, mail order, or pick-up. Just click the link above.

Legionville Work and Play is scheduled for the entire month of May.  This is the time when the camp is set up for the arrival of the campers.  Volunteers are needed all month.  Contact Roy Kruger, Camp Manager to schedule a time to come and help.

2013 Department Convention Housing and Pre-Registration - Information is now available on-line and in the Minnesota Legionnaire for registering for the 2013 Department Convention and booking your housing.  Department Convention is July 18-20, 2013 with the Executive Committee meeting the night of July 17th.

2013 Calendar Contest Underway - The fifth annual Minnesota American Legion Photo Calendar Contest is now underway. Again this year, the contest will call for photographs that veterans shot while they were in the service. Entries will be due by July 1, and the 12 winners will have their photo printed in the annual state Legion calendar. There will also be cash prizes for the photos judged to be the top three winners. Top prize will be $250, second prize will be $150 and third prize will be $100. The winning photograph will be on the cover of the  calendar. Click here for more information.

New-Barn-Photo-6-wThe new TRAINING CENTER at Legionville.  Commander Don Pankake has made the new educational facility at Legionville his project for this year. Please join the Commander in supporting this wonderful project for the youth of our state. Click here for more information. Follow the progrees on Legionville.org


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War Stories Volume 1 is
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Available!
War Stories
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All proceeds from the sale of the War Stories books go to American Legion
 children and youth programs in Minnesota.

More War Stories from the pages of the Minnesota Legionnaire written by Al Zdon

  • For $50 a month more pay, you could join the paratroopers. John Hinchliff grew up in Park Rapids.  Times were tough, so he joined the National Guard.  His unit was federalized after Pearl Harbor, and Hinchliff was assigned to anti-aircraft duty on the West Coast.  But the job was tedious, and when a recruiter for the airborne came around, Hinchliff decided he was tough enough for that outfit.
     
  • Before there were 30 Seconds Over Toyko, there were . . . Two Weeks in Minneapolis - As a television newsman, Timothy Blotz has dug out a lot of stories. But this World War II story was a  little special. It was about his grandfather.
     
  • 1 Year and 6 Days - Elmo Wojahn grew up on a farm near Comfrey and enlisted in the Navy in 1941 when he was 17 years old. He was aboard the USS Hornet (CV-8) when it was commissioned on the East Coast and when it was sunk at the Battle of Santa Cruz. That one year and six days included the Doolittle Raid on Tokyo and the Battle of Midway.
     
  • Flying the Superfortress - Loren Zander of Howard Lake told the Army he wanted to fly the biggest thing they had.  He got his wish.
     
  • Leon's Other War - Leon Frankel thought he was done with the military after flying torpedo bombers in World War II -- earning a Navy Cross sinking a Japanese Cruiser.  In late 1947 he had a good job, plenty of money, plenty of girl friends, and was still flying in the Navy Reserve.  Life was good for the kid from St. Paul.  But then he got that fateful phone call.  His services were needed again.
     
  • From a Minnesota farm to a British Spitfire - Growing up on a farm near Hector,Minnesota, Floyd "Rod" Rodmyre didn't plan on being an Army Air Corps pilot, let alone flying the plane that won the Battle of Britain, the Supermarine Spitfire. But when he arrived in North Africa as a P-39 fighter pilot, he found out that the Spitfires were providing escort protection when the P-39s went on a mission. "Fighters being escorted by fighters. It soon dawned on us that our P-39 wasn't much of a fighter plane." When the opportunity came to volunteer to fly the Spitfires, it took Rodmyre and his fellow pilots about three seconds to jump at the chance.
     

 

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