[Homer_J_Simpson]

Continued from July 13.

Major General H.W. Blakeley, USA, Ret., 32d Infantry Division in World War II

[Homer_J_Simpson]

Billboard Top Ten for the Week of July 22, 1944

#1 - “I’ll Be Seeing You” – Bing Crosby
#2 - “Swinging on a Star” – Bing Crosby
#3 – “I’ll Get By” - Harry James, with Dick Haymes (reissue of 1941 recording)
#4 – “Amor” - Bing Crosby
#5 – “Long Ago (and Far Away)” – Bing Crosby
#6 – “I Love You” – Bing Crosby
#7 - “Amor” – Andy Russell
#8 - “You Always Hurt the One You Love” – Mills Brothers
#9 - “Long Ago (and Far Away)” – Jo Stafford
#10 - “G.I. Jive” – Louis Jordan

[BroJoeK]

"Private Donald B. Lobaugh, Freeport, Pennsylvania"

Freeport is on the Allegheny River, just northeast of Pittsburgh, due west of, ahem, Homer City.

In 1940 its population was about 2,700 today around 1,800.
Lobaugh is listed among other Freeport notables (mostly athletes) and has a bridge there named after him.