ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
Special thanks to the Lincoln County Historical Museum for its contribution to this project.
Dedicated to Jill Claflin
Copyright © 2019 by North Platte Telegraph All Rights Reserved • ISBN: 978-1-59725-832-6 No part of this book may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without prior written permission of the copyright owner or the publisher. Published by Pediment Publishing, a division of The Pediment Group, Inc. www.pediment.com Printed in the United States of America. ON THE COVER FRONT: In this photo from about 1944, service members rush into North Platte's Union Pacific Depot, headed for the North Platte Canteen, from one of the thousands of U.P. troop trains to pass through the city during and just after World War II. BACK: Canteen “platform girls” Dorothy Loncar, left, and Margaret McEvoy present an unidentified sailor with a gift basket in about 1943.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Todd von Kampen is special projects reporter at The North Platte Telegraph, for which he has reported and written at various times during 35 years as a newspaper journalist. He began his career at the Keith County News in his nearby hometown of Ogallala, Nebraska, and also has written for the Des Moines Register, the Scottsbluff (Nebraska) Star-Herald and the Omaha World-Herald. He is the author of “All-Night Theater: The Music and Life of J.E. Thayer” (2013) and “Ron & Carol Cope: A Nebraska Love Story” (2017). Todd and his wife, Joan, The Telegraph’s current managing editor, live in North Platte with the two youngest of their four children.
All photographs, unless otherwise indicated, appear courtesy of the Lincoln County Historical Museum, North Platte, Nebraska.
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