Milly Bennett
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Milly Bennett was an American journalist and writer who covered political conditions in China, social conditions in the Soviet Union, the Spanish Civil War, and various events in the United States.
Bennett c. 1920s
Bennett with her third husband, Hans Amlie, 1938
Hans Amlie
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Hansford "Hans" Amlie was an American mining engineer, political activist and soldier who served in the United States Army and Marine Corps during and after World War I and in the International Brigad
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…in or before November 1936. She lived in the USSR until December 1936 when she moved to Spain to fight the fascists. On December 1, 1937, she married Hans Amlie, a commander in the volunteer Abraham Lincoln Brigade and brother of Thomas Amlie. While in the USSR and briefly after she moved to Spain, she had an…
Amlie in his U.S. Army uniform c. 1917–1919
A United Press bulletin detailing Amlie's efforts to volunteer in the Spanish Civil War mistakenly identifies his brother Thomas as his father, January 9, 1937
Amlie (right) shows his brother Thomas where he was grazed by a bullet in Spain, January 19, 1938