Gerry Hamilton Through her Daughters Eyes: with Jana Hamilton Gruber
The Donut Dollies
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39m
It's time for another episode in The Wives of The Bloody Hundredth series! Join us as we welcome Jana Hamilton Gruber to The Clubmobile! Jana is the daughter of 100th Bomb Group Bombardier Howard "Hambone" Hamilton, but her mother has quite a story of her own! One of the three Chicago Wives, famous for the "legs" picture, Gerry Hamilton lived alongside Jean Crosby and Margaret Blakely in 1943 before embarking on her own adventure. With Howard in a POW camp after the events of the Munster Raid, Gerry left Chicago to join the circus as a roller skater! Don't believe us? Grab your coffee and a fresh sinker and join us in The Clubmobile for more Wives of The Bloody Hundredth!
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