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    Dear Folks

    NOVEMBER 1, 2011 8:59PM

    By Kathy Riordan


    Topics: 436th troop carrier group, history, letters home, army air corps, aviation cadet, lawrence t. riordan, st. mary's college winona minnesota, world war ii

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    Next Year in Jerusalem

    APRIL 9, 2010 3:00PM

    By Kathy Riordan


    Topics: lawrence riordan, larry riordan, 436th troop carrier group, us army air corps, jerusalem, judaica, king david hotel, tourism, travel, next year in jerusalem, horrors of war, jewish people, nazi extermination, death camps, world war ii, holocaust remembrance day, shoah

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    Letter from an American World War II Soldier to His Parents

    SEPTEMBER 24, 2009 9:41PM

    By Kathy Riordan


    Topics: chicago illinois, jack gallagher, john gallagher, larry riordan, lawrence t. riordan, captain j. gallagher, second lieutenant l. t. riordan, 82nd squadron, 436th troop carrier group, glider pilots, germany, rhine river, melun france, dakota, c-47 skytrain, c-47 pilot, european theater, faith, courage, battle, letters in wartime, letters home from the war, open call, second world war, wwii, american soldier, soldier, pilot, world war ii

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    On the 65th Anniversary of Operation Market Garden

    SEPTEMBER 19, 2009 8:10AM

    By Kathy Riordan


    Topics: open call, second world war, allied forces, the netherlands, jaquet weston, hal read, bill elmendorf, gale ammerman, larry riordan, marty wolfe, membury, melun, dakota, c-47, invasion of holland, world war ii, us army air corps, 436th troop carrier group, adriel n. williams, arnhem airdrop, operation market garden

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