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Mr. Fred Jenkins, Editor Watsonville Register-Pajaronian Watsonville, California.Dear Sir:In regards to your editorials regarding to the Japanese questions, I think you are an egotistical fool. Any man of your capacity who makes such unethical…

Date: 1943-04-26
Source: Watsonville Register-Pajaronian , page 6
Type: NEWS

CF-20181220-A mysterious submarine sinking in WWII0001.PDF

Date: 1990-02-02
Source: Santa Cruz Sentinel
Type: NEWS

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A "Railsplitter" from Santa Cruz was posthumously awarded the Silver Star.

Adolph J. Negri was born in Santa Cruz, California on October 1, 1922, to Clem and Mary Negri. The Negri family had moved to Santa Cruz from Italy before Adolph was born.…

Date: Undated
Source: Remembering our own: the Santa Cruz County military roll of honor 1861-2010. Santa Cruz, CA: The Museum of Art & History, c2010.
Type: OBIT

First and final account of Coroner Pat Freeman, administrator of the estate of George Michael Heckel, "an enemy alien," was filed in superior court yesterday, the final paragraph in the life of a Santa Cruzan who chose death to leaving his…

Date: 1942-10-14
Source: Santa Cruz Sentinel-News, Morning Edition , page 1
Type: NEWS

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Delos was serving on a "tin can" when it exploded.

Albert Delos Godfrey was born on March 27, 1922, in Soquel, California, to Mr. and Mrs. Albert D. Godfrey. The Godfrey family also included one other son, Herbert, and a daughter, Mrs. Martin…

Date: Undated
Source: Remembering our own: the Santa Cruz County military roll of honor 1861-2010. Santa Cruz, CA: The Museum of Art & History, c2010.
Type: OBIT

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A scholarship winner from Watsonville joined the growing Okinawa casualty list.

Albert Ernest Bode Jr. was born in Sacramento, California, on January 31, 1925, and moved to the Pajaro Valley with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Albert E. Bode Sr. Along…

Date: Undated
Source: Remembering our own: the Santa Cruz County military roll of honor 1861-2010. Santa Cruz, CA: The Museum of Art & History, c2010.
Type: OBIT

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Albert G. Wackermann was born on August 7, 1915, in San Francisco, California, to Theodore and Delia Wackermann. The family also consisted of another son Theodore Jr. and daughters Bertha and Adelene. Theodore later moved his family to Santa Cruz…

Date: Undated
Source: Remembering our own: the Santa Cruz County military roll of honor 1861-2010. Santa Cruz, CA: The Museum of Art & History, c2010.
Type: OBIT

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A lake in Florida was the final body of water for this naval airman.

Alfred Raymond Moore was born about 1922, in Cortez, Colorado, to Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Moore. Shortly after his birth, Alfred's family moved to Watsonville where he was raised…

Date: Undated
Source: Remembering our own: the Santa Cruz County military roll of honor 1861-2010. Santa Cruz, CA: The Museum of Art & History, c2010.
Type: OBIT

FEBRUARY 24 IS DATE FOR CLEARING AREAThe federal alien restricted area ruling of Attorney General Francis Biddle brought wartime reality into the heart of Santa Cruz county yesterday when all the area west of state highway No. 1 (the Coast road and…

Date: 1942-02-03
Source: Santa Cruz Sentinel-News, Morning Edition , page 1
Type: NEWS

With the advent of the salmon fishing season, about 15 Santa Cruz fishermen will be affected by the federal regulation which requires that an alien fisherman have a crew which is at least 50 per cent citizen aboard his boat before he may go out to…

Date: 1943-03-26
Source: Santa Cruz Sentinel-News, Evening Edition , page 1
Type: NEWS

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