I wish to read a letter from a Navy lieutenant concerning the tractors for Cuba. The writer of the letter to me was himself a prisoner of the Communists for about a year and a half. The letter is from Navy Lt. Duane W. Thorin. a native Nebraskan. the eighth son of Swedish immigrant parents who homesteaded in western Nebraska at the turn of the century. Lieutenant Thorin enlisted in the Navy as an apprentice seaman in 1939. served in continuous active duty ever since. Designated a Navy enlisted pilot in 1943. served the remainder of World War II in the Pacific theater.
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