The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, March 1st, 2001
LOUIS ROMANO
TAKES FIVE
Immortalizing `Gertie the Duck'
Thursday, March 1, 2001
The year is 1945, World War II rages, and Milwaukee finds something on the home front that will keep it occupied for quite some time: a duck. Not only that, but it's a she-duck about to be a mama, right there on a wood piling on the Milwaukee River in downtown Milwaukee. The duck's tale was picked up by local media and soon appeared in "Stars and Stripes," the armed forces newspaper. Nicholas Georgiady and Louis Romano, two hometown boys stationed in England, followed the story. In 1959, as Milwaukee-area teach...
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