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Lives Lost: Weatherman built career on skills learned in war

by Associated Press
| June 13, 2020 12:03 AM

PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — Robert Fleury knew he wanted to serve his country when he was a teenager, so he signed up for one of the most remote assignments in World War II — tracking the weather for the U.S. Navy in the frigid Aleutian Islands off Alaska.

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