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Editor's note: This is the second of two parts about the great storm of June 24, 1950.
As quickly as it came, the fierce storm passed through the Sheboygan area. Even though the sudden summer gale lasted a mere 15 minutes or less, the damage toll in and around Sheboygan County was high.
At Camp Haven north of Sheboygan, post commander Maj. Milton Lederman found that the camp lay in complete disarray. Tents had been blown down everywhere; sturdily constructed wooden shower stalls had been completely demolished and all that remained of them was a tangle of bent water pipes.
Maj. Lederman called the Sheboygan Police Department and requested that police officers contact all off-duty military personal in the Sheboygan area and order them to return to the camp at once; all leaves had been cancelled.
On leave in the Sheboygan area at the time was a young soldier, Richard Colbath of Ashland, Maine, who is now 76 years old and a longtime Sheboygan resident, Colbath related that at the time he was in the regular Army and was permanently assigned to Camp Haven. Colbath went on to relate that upon arriving back...