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* http://collections.mnhs.org/MNHistoryMagazine/articles/25/v25i04p342-361.pdf (PDF)
* http://collections.mnhs.org/MNHistoryMagazine/articles/25/v25i04p342-361.pdf (PDF)
=== George Beck: June 3, 1941 ===
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Search in camp for tobacco. Lost two packets given me by the Poles. Hid them under the bed but they were found. No news. What a life, same routine day in day out.
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—[[George Beck (nonfiction)|George Beck]],1st Battalion The Duke of Wellington's Regiment, prisoner of war (diary)
* http://www.pegasusarchive.org/pow/george_beck.htm
=== George Beck: June 15, 1944 ===
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German newspaper today gives the name of first prisoner of war to be captured in France. He was an American and he dropped by parachute right in divisional headquarters. A German officer who had spent years in England, and captained the team eleven at Cambridge University said "Hands up old man your invasion is over". Reply, "Yes, thank heavens".
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—[[George Beck (nonfiction)|George Beck]],1st Battalion The Duke of Wellington's Regiment, prisoner of war (diary)
* http://www.pegasusarchive.org/pow/george_beck1.htm


=== Tatsusei Yogi: June 15, 1945 ===
=== Tatsusei Yogi: June 15, 1945 ===
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== Nonfiction cross-reference ==
== Nonfiction cross-reference ==


* [[George Beck (nonfiction)]]
* [[Isaac L. Taylor (nonfiction)]]
* [[War (nonfiction)]]
* [[War (nonfiction)]]
* [[War Diaries (nonfiction)]]
* [[War Diaries (nonfiction)]]
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* http://collections.mnhs.org/MNHistoryMagazine/articles/25/v25i04p342-361.pdf (PDF)
* http://collections.mnhs.org/MNHistoryMagazine/articles/25/v25i04p342-361.pdf (PDF)
* http://www.pegasusarchive.org/pow/george_beck.htm
* http://www.pegasusarchive.org/pow/george_beck1.htm
* [http://www2.cruzio.com/~yogi/diary.htm A Wartime Diary] by [[Tatsusei Yogi (nonfiction)|Tatsusei Yogi]], edited by [[Takashi Yogi (nonfiction)|Takashi Yogi]]
* [http://www2.cruzio.com/~yogi/diary.htm A Wartime Diary] by [[Tatsusei Yogi (nonfiction)|Tatsusei Yogi]], edited by [[Takashi Yogi (nonfiction)|Takashi Yogi]]



Latest revision as of 20:41, 24 May 2020

War Diary entries for June 15

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Isaac Lyman Taylor: June 15, 1863

Resume our march at 3 A.M. Ambulances crowded with the fruits of yesterday's march

Isaac Lyman Taylor, Company E, First Minnesota Volunteer Infantry.

George Beck: June 3, 1941

Search in camp for tobacco. Lost two packets given me by the Poles. Hid them under the bed but they were found. No news. What a life, same routine day in day out.

George Beck,1st Battalion The Duke of Wellington's Regiment, prisoner of war (diary)

George Beck: June 15, 1944

German newspaper today gives the name of first prisoner of war to be captured in France. He was an American and he dropped by parachute right in divisional headquarters. A German officer who had spent years in England, and captained the team eleven at Cambridge University said "Hands up old man your invasion is over". Reply, "Yes, thank heavens".

George Beck,1st Battalion The Duke of Wellington's Regiment, prisoner of war (diary)

Tatsusei Yogi: June 15, 1945

Constant bombing from morning to night. Sachiko kept crying so we left the mountains and had soft rice at a house and slept under the eaves.

Tatsusei Yogi was a Japanese civilian in Okinawa.

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