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Gertie Alwis 1915 - 1986

Gertie Alwis of Hinsdale, Du Page County, Illinois was born on April 2, 1915, and died at age 71 years old in October 1986.

Gertie Alwis
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Hinsdale, Du Page County, Illinois 60521
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April 2, 1915
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Updated: November 2, 2011
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In 1915, in the year that Gertie Alwis was born, the Germans first used poison gas as a weapon at the second Battle of Ypres during World War I. While noxious gases had been used since ancient times, this was the first use of poisonous gas - in this case, lethal chlorine gas - in modern war. Subsequently, the French and British - as well as the United States when they entered World War 1 - developed and used lethal gas in war.
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In 1927, Gertie was merely 12 years old when in September, the Columbia Broadcasting System (later called CBS) became the second national radio network in the U.S. The first broadcast was a presentation by the Howard Barlow Orchestra from radio station WOR in Newark, New Jersey.
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