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Buena Vista University Remembers: A tribute to Beavers who gave their all in World War II

He gave his all Sept. 11, 1943

BVC football/White Caps standout regarded as a hometown hero

By Phoebe Feis
Posted 9/10/24

Del Thayer was at his general quarters station the day a Fritz X PGM gravity bomb ripped a gaping hole in the port side of the USS Savannah.

It was a bright and cloudless day, and the German …

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