1938

Emlen says that Sandy Mills is at Carlisle Barracks in the Medical Corps; "He phoned me from Harrisburg a couple of weeks ago, where he'd gone to get a haircut. Said that he was complimented on the shine on his belt buckle, and then was given hell because it didn't line up with the buttons on his fly." Bunky Dunlap finally crashed through with some news:

Clarke, Margaret, and Clark Jr. Fletcher have just set up residence in sunny Mexico address Gantes 15-514, Mexico D. F., Mexico. Senor Fletcher is now Studebaker factory manager for Mexico and the West Indies Wig MacKinnon reports that Cy is busy breaking strikes and trying to prevent further ones, in and about Chicago; via Reno, "They are presently engrossed in some sort of a folk-dancing affair and gave me a good example of their skill in the middTe of Ontario St." Received a V-mail from George (the Major) Kingsbury presenting a pleasant pastoral scene of the Philippines amid the constant ack-ack; he arrived there with "Big Mac's Liberation Invasion Forces" and is directing artillery amongst the rice paddies. Reno, the ex-South American bloodhound, has by this time tone to the South Seas for the winter. Slattery ack in Miami with wife and child.

From Dave Bradley:

Most of the Greens I've seen seemed to have stormed the first bastion (matrimony), some the second (patrimony), but none have gotten to the last lien of defense (alimony). There's not much exciting or romantic to report from this outpost, this last stop on the way from the cradle to the grave. I'm interning at University of California in surgery; get home usually between eleven and one at night, too tired to see straight, change our daughter's diapers and fall into bed.

From Dick Lewis: "Have been hanging around since graduation working at the plant, helping to keep things going, because of the help shortage, etc. As you probably know, we have two children, a boy and a girl, two and five respectively."

Just out "The Encyclopaedia of Sports," a very comprehensive volume dealing with everything from birling to ping-pong; under the track section, a list of the best all-time American participants—John M. Donovan in the hurdles. Johnny Whelden has been getting some travel under his belt, and some good copy. He writes an article for The Field Artillery Journal, "American Artillery Proves Itself Again." From the Satevepost, "Some of these young men, who were placidly preparing copy only two years ago now have seen as much shock troop assault and combat as any infantryman; three-time assault waverAfrica, Sicily, Salerno—the deeds of Johnny Whelden from Massachusetts have become legend." Johnny filled in on the New Yorker,"A Reporter at Large" Department, with "Italian Street Scene." He was made captain last September. The A. P. account of the first day of the Anzio beachhead carries: "Public Relations Officer Jack Whelden of Newton, Mass., has been one helluva busy man trying to find some means of getting the copy back."

From Paul Urion, "Dorothy and I are housekeeping here at Fort Thomas, where I was and still am Judge Advocate. Katharine Louise Urion arrived last October 15."

Lt. Bob Carroll has been awarded the Silver Star, "for gallantry and intrepidity in action in performance of his duties as an officer of a United States submarine during a war patrol of the vessel." Lt. Herb Loring has been assigned to the post of assistant chaplain at the Fort Worth Army Air Field, a unit of the Central Flying Training Command. He entered the Army in November 1943, studied at Chaplains' School, Harvard, and was then assigned to the Garden City AAF, Kansas.

Major Jack Fitting, now at the Marine Air Base at Cherry Point, N. C., hit the altar last November 29, but this is the first I've heard of it. She was Dorothy Westhead, Long Island.

From a quote comes the following:

Capt. Howard Fogg has returned to the States after completing more than twelve months of combat flying with the Eighth Air Force on bomber escort missions in P-47s and P-51s. He is presently assigned to a unit of the First AAF Fighter Command with headquarters at Mitchel Field, N. Y., where he will instruct pilots for overseas replacements. Capt. Fogg, a veteran of 76 missions, was commissioned a second lieutenant on November 10, 1942. Promoted to first lieutenant in July 1943, he attained his present rank in March 1944, while overseas, and wears the Distinguished Flying Cross with one Oak Leaf Cluster, the Air Medal with three Oak Leaf Clusters.

And from another, "Marine Capt. Kenelm Herschel, South Pacific Combat Air Transport pilot, with over 700 overseas flying hours, has flown many unusual cargoes. He considers the most peculiar a plane full of barefooted Fiji Island scouts clad in loincloths. He was with American Airlines before entering the service." See you next month.

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