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Garbisch, the big Army captain, used his big right toe as a flaming howitzer today in the Baltimore Stadium and beat the Navy singlehanded as 80,000 people looked down upon the field of war. . . . For it was Garbisch 12 and Navy 0 . . . He had, after the early misses, been adjusting his famous
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January 1942 to December 1945 as an engineer responsible for directing all military construction in New England and New York, including 39 Army airfields and embarkation camps.
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438:In 1954, Garbisch was inducted into the
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689:"M'Carthy Picks Them In Pairs".
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139:Career highlights and awards
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621:"Edgar Garbisch Bio"
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