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Mitscher Returns Home
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Vice Admiral Marc Mitscher stands with suitcases in hand upon his arrival in Hillsboro. It was the first time in ten years that the military commander had visited his birth place. The town honored Mitscher with a party and parade. Local and state newspapers covered the event.
July 1945
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