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TIL about Archie E. Mitchell, a minister and missionary who disappeared in 1962 while working at a leper colony in Vietnam. On May 5th 1945 his five-months-pregnant wife, Elsie and five children died from Fu-Go balloon bombs in the only war-related deaths in the American continent in World War II.

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