1941
Well, here we are, ready to begin my second year as your humble assistant to the assistant to the secretary of the class of 1941. We've been doing a lot of moving around of late: As you may notice, our new address of August is our old address of October as we have moved back into the same group of apartments. So send all of your letters to the latest address, please. I hope we are settled now for a while.
I knocked off for a ten-day vacation to Minneapolis during the middle of August, and it was good to get away from Washington. I ran into Bob Krieger, who had just gotten back from England. He had hoped to make it in time to be around for the three- point landing of Nan Louise Krieger on the 19th of July, but missed it by five weeks. Needless to say, he is happy to be home and doesn't have much to say about his experiences. What I could get out of him was that he flew a B-24 over Germany for over 35 missions and managed to come out unscathed. Sounds pretty simple but we know better. Bob is expecting to be assigned to training-duty at some bomber school. Congratulations, Gretchen and Bob on the goodlooking offspring.
Just before leaving Washington we had the pleasure one evening during July of feeding Donnie and Jack Orr, from whom we heard the latest reports on "Mike" the mighty mite. Donnie was in Washington bidding Jack goodbye, for he was shoving off for the Pacific the next day.
John D. Bowe was promoted to full lieutenant in the Naval Reserve and is now the first engineering officer in charge of the assembly and repair shops at the Naval Air Base, Opa Locha, Miami, Fla., where he and his wife Barbara reside.
Art F. Stevens who left Dartmouth to complete his college training at Columbia received his Wings as a second lieutenant and a fighter pilot during the latter part of June at Napier Field, Ala.
Barbara Harvey at 157 East 72nd St., New York City, 21, would appreciate it, Mr. Julian Koenig, if you would get in touch with her. Bob has been trying to get your address, as he would like to contact you. Bob Harvey is a combat correspondent for the Marine Corps and is really getting in on a lot of action in the Pacific. His first story to come through was a delayed interview from the Marshall's released by A.P. The last reports have him in Guam and Saipan.
Who should drop in on me the other day but Don Stillman, who has just returned from England and the Invasion. Don partici- pated as a member of the Allied naval forces which covered the landings on D-day. He saw quite a few '4iers at a get-together in London. Bill Durkee was one of them, and he is trying to get back into the Service after being honorably discharged from the King's Royal Rifle Corps for leg injuries received in Africa. Some of the others were Capt. Bud Riley, who is meteorological officer for an Army Air Base in England, Capt. Joe Wilkes, who had come from Sicily and Italy as a member of an airborne outfit to participate in the Invasion, Lt. "Spif" Little, who is connected with an armored division and uses a tank for his transportation, and Capt. Ralph Johnson, who had just arrived overseas and left a brand new wife here in the U. S. Don didn't get close enough to Lt. George Tamlyn to speak to him, but he did catch a glimpse of him in a crowded station. He also saw Lt. Bob Fisher of the Air Corps and reports that Mort McGinley skippered a LCI (L) during the Invasion in the same force, and came through very much okay. Don appreciates the opportunity to get back to the U. S. and more particularly to his pretty wife Patricia. Now he is expecting to spend some time here before we turn our main efforts eastward and give Japan the works.
William E. Canniff received his silver Wingsas an Army Air Force pilot and was sworn inas a second lieutenant at graduation exercises held at Napier Field, Ala.
Several marriages occurred over the summer months and no doubt there are plenty more that I have not heard of, but the following ceremonies did take place. Lt. (jg) George E. Flather married Miss Carolyn Stetson Avery, who herself is an ensign in the Navy. Both Carolyn and George were in the Naval Supply Corps and they will reside temporarily at Newport, R. I. Capt. John Victor Kelsey, USMC wed Miss Martha Ann Courtney here in Washington at the Chevy Chase Presbyterian Church. After leaving Dartmouth, Jack entered the Marine Corps, receiving his commission at the Marine Corps Basic School in 1942, and then served twenty-seven months in the South Pacific. They will live in New River, N. C., for the time being. Ens. Don. F. Hagen married Miss Jane Warren in South Orange, N. J. Don has completed his midshipman's school at Notre Dame University and is now at the Philadelphia Navy Yard on temporary duty. Lt. William E. Hotaling USA married Miss Jean Perrine in Glen Ridge, N. J. They will live at Camp Atterbury, Ind., where Bill is stationed. Cpl. Clinton A. Reynolds, Army Signal Corps, married Miss Elizabeth Garrett Sharpe in Greensboro, N. C. Immediately after the ceremony they left for Boca Raton Field, Fla., where Clint is stationed with the Air Corps. Lt. William Edwin Philbrook AUS wed Miss Phyllis Price Muller at Fort Wright, Spokane, Wash. Lt. George S. Tamlyn Jr. married Miss Eleanor Faye Nail at Lakeland, Fla. They have gone to Atlantic City where George is awaiting reassignment.
Engagements for the summer include, Lt. Col. John C. Meyer to Miss Mary Justina Moore; Dr. Robert C. Raine to Miss Dora Irene Merino; Lt. (jg) Richard Duryea Cords to Miss Virginia Reagan; and Lt. Roger M. Hoffman to Miss Jean Millington.
Let's get some more hot dope in here for the next issue.
THE PURPLE HEART has been awarded to 2nd Lt. Robert F. Thorne '41, who was shot down in the Adriatic on his 11 th mission, but who came back to complete 15 more by June 26.
Secretary, James Buchanan Apt., B 12 Presidential Gardens, Alexandria, Va Treasurer, 17 N. Park St., Hanover, N. H.
Out in Front One of the first craft out to clear the courses of the Normandy invasion fleet of mines was skippered by Lieutenant Joseph J. Guidrey '4l, who was in command of a flotilla of D-day mine sweepers. Lieutenant Guidrey, who is a Watertown, Mass., resident, enlisted in the Navy following his graduation in 1941.
