Article posted: 2/10/2013 8:00 AM

Palatine group helps to get WWII prayer book home

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Ken Asmann and Marg Duer, with an American soldier's Catholic's Pocket Manual, which was found in France, and now returned to the States via Palatine's Sister City Fontenay-le-Comte.

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Bob Chwedyk/bchwedyk@dailyherald.com Ken Asmann, with an American soldier's Catholic's Pocket Manual, which was found in France, and now returned to the States via Palatine's Sister City Fontenay-le-Comte.

Bob Chwedyk/bchwedyk@dailyherald.com An American soldier's Catholic prayer book, with a specially made box and correspondence. The book was found in France, and now returned to the States via Palatine's Sister City Fontenay-le-Comte.

Bob Chwedyk/bchwedyk@dailyherald.com An American soldier's Catholic's Pocket Manual, which was found in France, and now returned to the States via Palatine's Sister City Fontenay-le-Comte.

Bob Chwedyk/bchwedyk@dailyherald.com Ken Asmann and Marg Duer, with an American soldier's Catholic's Pocket Manual, which was found in France, and now returned to the States via Palatine's Sister City Fontenay-le-Comte.

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At the height of World War II in 1944, 11-year-old Claude Juin found a small, battered prayer book belonging to an American soldier on a coastal road near his small village in France. Now 70 years later, Juin and members of Palatine Sister Cities Association are close to returning the book to its rightful owners.
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    • Ken Asmann and Marg Duer, with an American soldier's Catholic's Pocket Manual, which was found in France, and now returned to the States via Palatine's Sister City Fontenay-le-Comte.
    • Bob Chwedyk/bchwedyk@dailyherald.com Ken Asmann, with an American soldier's Catholic's Pocket Manual, which was found in France, and now returned to the States via Palatine's Sister City Fontenay-le-Comte.
    • Bob Chwedyk/bchwedyk@dailyherald.com An American soldier's Catholic prayer book, with a specially made box and correspondence. The book was found in France, and now returned to the States via Palatine's Sister City Fontenay-le-Comte.
    • Bob Chwedyk/bchwedyk@dailyherald.com An American soldier's Catholic's Pocket Manual, which was found in France, and now returned to the States via Palatine's Sister City Fontenay-le-Comte.
    • Bob Chwedyk/bchwedyk@dailyherald.com Ken Asmann and Marg Duer, with an American soldier's Catholic's Pocket Manual, which was found in France, and now returned to the States via Palatine's Sister City Fontenay-le-Comte.
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