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COVER ON THE COVER: The 1944 telegram from the War Department to [Bernard I. Rader]'s parents informing them that he was missing in action. PHOTO 1: PFC Bernard I. Rader in December 1944. PHOTO 2: Bernard Rader took his wife and son, [Bob Moore], in background, to Brittany to remember fallen co...

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Published inThe Hartford courant
Main Authors Rader, Robert, Robert J. Rader of Glastonbury is executive director of the Connecticut Association of Boards of Education
Format Newspaper Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Hartford, Conn Tribune Publishing Company, LLC 25.07.2004
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Summary:COVER ON THE COVER: The 1944 telegram from the War Department to [Bernard I. Rader]'s parents informing them that he was missing in action. PHOTO 1: PFC Bernard I. Rader in December 1944. PHOTO 2: Bernard Rader took his wife and son, [Bob Moore], in background, to Brittany to remember fallen comrades, to thank the French people who helped him, and to honor the Red Cross worker who persuaded the Germans and Americans to swap prisoners in the fall of 1944. MAP: FRANCE PHOTO 3: Bernard Rader waits in a stretcher at right as German soldiers help a Lt. Baldwin from a German ambulance. The men were about to be sent across the Etel River in a prisoner exchange in November 1944. PHOTO 4: When he finally recognized the room in a French hospital where he had been held prisoner, the memories came flooding back for Bernard Rader on his recent trip to Brittany. PHOTO 5: June Rader comforts her husband Bernard at the Brittany American Cemetery in St. James, France, where 4,410 Americans are buried. Rader and comrade [Kermit Harden] said a prayer over the grave of a soldier killed while trying to surrender after their patrol had been ambushed and surrounded by Germans in October 1944.
ISSN:1047-4153