This article is about Judy Horsch, daughter of Joseph M. Tucker, continues to share the family's story about the Harvest Brigade.
Joseph M. Tucker wrote this memorandum to outline his "ideas as to how the emergency harvest brigade should be organized."
This is a photograph of Joseph M. Tucker standing next to a vehicle in which President Franklin D. Roosevelt sits, in front of a Massey-Harris Self-Propelled Combine and several other people.
Jernigan, WLW Book 1 CD and Book 2 CD, 1995 January
Jernigan, Wm. Lindsay White w/changes, 2 CDs, 1966 February 22
This is a portrait of Joseph M. Tucker.
Fern Letnes gave the photograph and news clippings to Judy Horsch, daughter of Joseph M. Tucker.
This includes a mini-biography of Lawrence John Letnes who was in charge of the Harvest Brigade during the summer of 1944. The story states that Letnes "was the aerial liaison man who kept a fleet of 20 self-propelled combines rolling across the state of Kansas northward to the Canadian border to harvest grain that may have remained uncut because of the critical shortage of manpower and machines during WWII."
The photograph is of John Letnes standing in front of his airplane. The side of the airplane reads, "Self-Propelled Combines, L. J. Letness, Representative, Grand Forks, N. D."