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Brinegar, David, 1910-1998.

The Brinegar-Bethancourt collection is comprised of materials collected by David Brinegar who was a captain in Coast Artillery Corps and Wiltz Bethancourt, the head of the United States Army Censorship Department in Iran. They remained in contact after their years of military service, both being active in the "Last Man's Club" and Persian Gulf Command Veterans Organizations. These two gentlemen were two of an estimated 400 Arizonans who served in the Persian Gulf Command during World War II. This operation was charged with creating and maintaining air, highway, and rail routes through Iran to supply the Soviet Union with materials for their fight against Nazi Germany on the Eastern Front.

David Brinegar (1910-1998) was born in Rulo, Nebraska before moving to Tucson, Arizona with his parents at age 2. He was a lifetime journalist, getting his first job with the Arizona daily star while still a student at Tucson High School in Apr. of 1925. In 1935 he moved to Phoenix and became the statehouse reporter for the Arizona republic, where he worked before beginning his brief military career. In the late 1940s he became the first managing editor of the small paper The Arizona times, before leaving to become executive secretary of the Central Arizona Project Association. He later worked as a copy editor for the Arizona daily star, eventually being assigned as its executive editor in 1961. He worked there until his retirement in 1974. Source: Arizona daily star, Jan. 3, 1998, 8A.

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Brinegar, David F., 1910- ,

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Newspaperman; managing editor of the Arizona Times, Phoenix, Ariz., 1946-1948, later executive editor, Arizona Daily Star. From the description of Correspondence, 1946-1949. (University of Arizona). WorldCat record id: 31485140 From the description of Governor Sidney P. Osborn : the record of a final dramatic illness, 1947-1954. (University of Arizona). WorldCat record id: 31485066 Journalist and secretary of the Southwestern Polo Association. From the d...

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