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History: Dog days in the desert: The story of Dakar
Tracy Conrad
During the raging conflict of the entire world at war, brothers Randall and Cliff Henderson, bumped into each other in North Africa. Both had already served their country during the first World War, but they enlisted again. Cliff reached the rank of Colonel and becoming U.S. Air Force Military Commissioner in Dakar. Randall, an aviator like his brother, loved the desert and asked to serve in Africa for the second World War. The unlikely meeting of the brothers thousands of miles from home was a welcome reunion. The two would dream of life after the conflagration, on a very different desert.