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Bruns General Hospital Christmas Dinner Menu 1943, 1944

Laureta Huit

Dec 23, 2022

Bruns General Hospital Christmas Dinner Menu 1943, 1944

We explore the Christmas Dinner menus from Bruns General Hospital in 1943 and 1944. Colonel Earl Harvey Bruns Hospital opened in April of...

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"Operation: Merry & Bright" A Card Making Workshop

Laureta Huit

Nov 28, 2022

"Operation: Merry & Bright" A Card Making Workshop

Please Join Us December 3rd from 12 P.M. to 3 P.M. This Year the New Mexico Military Museum is Teaming up with local Card Maker and Paper...

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Laureta Huit

Oct 28, 2022

just not that tasty

Candy as good as a boiled potato. Candy as a sweet treat offered a quick “Pick-Me-Up” for the enlisted soldiers of World War II, but...

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Laureta Huit

Oct 28, 2022

Operation Vittles

Colonel Gail S. Halvorsen is known simply as the Berlin Candy Bomber or Wiggly Wings. He routinely made supply drops during the Berlin...

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Pallets of Tootsie Roll candies parachuted from the sky to the First Marine Division!

Laureta Huit

Oct 28, 2022

Pallets of Tootsie Roll candies parachuted from the sky to the First Marine Division!

During World War II while many confectionaries had to reduce or even stop production, Tootsie Roll was able to expand. Tootsie Rolls...

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