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About Ralph Eiland:
July 27, 1944 "The Dothan Eagle (Dothan, Alabama) Alabama Officer Gets Thirty Wounds From Phantom
Bomb Birmingham (AP) - After surviving a German buzz bomb attach in which he suffered about 30 wounds,
Comdr. Ralph T. Eiland considers himself 'lucky to be alive."
Comdr. Eiland, of the U.S. Coast
Guard, related his experience with the robot while visiting his mother, Mrs. J. T. Eiland, a resident
of the neighboring Homewood, yesterday. The officer said glass showered the London apratment he occupied
when the reprisal bomb struck a convent next door, killing two nuns. He was injured. Two sergeants
found him and placed him in an ambulance. Enroute to the hospital, he said, the vehicle broke down
and two drunks carried him the remainder of the way.
Name: Ralph T Eiland Gender: Male Precinct
number: 082 Estimated precinct locality: Miami, Dade, Florida Residence: , Dade, Florida Age:
46y Estimated birth year: 1899 Birthplace: , , Alabama Race or color (on document): White Race
or color: White Collection: Florida State Census, 1945
About Isabelle Unknown:
Name: Isabelle Eiland Gender: Female Precinct number: 082 Estimated precinct locality: Miami,
Dade, Florida Residence: , Dade, Florida Age: 38y Estimated birth year: 1907 Birthplace:
, , Massachusetts Race or color (on document): White Race or color: White Collection: Florida
State Census, 1945
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