[Homer_J_Simpson]

On August 6th Homer’s father wrote from Camp Stoneman, where his group was preparing to embark for overseas. It looks like most of the 79th Battalion did board a transport and head for the South Pacific. Homer’s father, however, got diverted into an MP outfit based in Camp Knight, Oakland.

[Homer_J_Simpson]

Grip on Isles Firm – 2-3
U.S. Fleet Batters Foe in Aleutians – 3
War News Summarized – 3
Germans Stab Into Circassia; Second Oil Field Menaced (Parker) – 4-5
800 Polish Priests Reported Killed – 5
86 More Soldiers Missing at Sea – 6
WPB Just Goes Ahead (Krock) – 7
The Texts of the Day’s Communiques on Fighting in Various Zones – 8-9

[AU72]

I saw a letter by my wife’s grandfather, who was a troop transport commander in the Solomons describing the japanese airman they retrieved (dead)after shooting him down in August 41, Enclosed was a 10 yen script from him.