Category Archives: History

Plane Demolishes Red Cross Truck 1945

Posted on December 13, 2011 by meta4r

Bad day at the airfield! Someone ran their P-51 Mustang smack into a Red Cross truck. The plane hit the passenger side and spun around to a stop on the driver’s side. Click the picture for a larger view. These … Continue reading →

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Nagoya Japan 1946

Posted on December 8, 2011 by meta4r

I found these old views of Nagoya in our family pictures. My father served with the occupying forces in Japan after World War II. One of his postings was to Nagoya where allied bombing had destroyed more than 113,000 buildings. … Continue reading →

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Life Story of George Ader Walker… as written by him. (part 9)

Posted on November 13, 2011 by meta4r

Following graduation from high school I taught country school for one term and then went to business college. After business college I worked for brother Fred in Sauk Centre who had the bus and transfer business. In the fall of … Continue reading →

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Life Story of George Ader Walker… as written by him. (part 8)

Posted on November 12, 2011 by meta4r

When I was fourteen years old which would have been in 1913 dad decided to give up farming in that part of the world as there was not enough moisture to grow farm crops. He decided to go to Minnesota … Continue reading →

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Life Story of George Ader Walker… as written by him. (part 7)

Posted on October 29, 2011 by meta4r

We finally left there and went on west where dad filed on a homestead in Perkins County. We were about halfway between Sturgis and Lemmon our closest railroad town. Dad built a sod house and I had to help carry … Continue reading →

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