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  • The Mansfield Bar

    The Mansfield Bar

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    The press said Jayne Mansfield was decapitated when her car rear-ended a semi. It wasn’t true, but a movement arose to put safety bars on the rear of every truck. And they’re called . . .

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Past Article

Shav LaVigne
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The history of a little-know place and a few biographical notes on a USAAF corporal combine to make this fascinating story. Postcards the young airman mailed home help us understand what military training in a desert was like over eighty years ago.

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