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Taps : Col Del Townsend B-194 GIR 17th Abn

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Col. Delbert L. Townsend dies at 88 on Tuesday, January 26, 2010.

La Plata, Md. The Danbury-Norcatur native who helps fund the college dreams of Red Willow and Decatur county high school graduates has died. Col. Delbert L. Townsend, the benefactor of the Townsend Scholarship Program, was 88 years old when he died late Tuesday afternoon in Maryland.
Col. Townsend was born in Norcatur, Kan., on April 6, 1921, and grew up on his family’s farm near Danbury in Red Willow County, where he attended elementary school and part of high school.
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2009

Kay Summersby – Ike Was my Boss (10)

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Returning from Cairo to Algiers, I began digging away at the minor mountain of paper accumulated on my desk. Memories of Egypt and Palestine faded completely as I worked late each night to reduce those piles of the General’s fan mail. Like everyone else at headquarters, however, I was still busier on unofficial duties… working overtime on the old rumor that Gen Marshall, not Gen Ike, would head the new American Expeditionary Force building in Britain, and that Ike would go to Washington to become Chief of Staff.
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