HUTCHINSON HIGH SCHOOL
J. F. GILLILAND, PRINCIPAL
HUTCHINSON, KANSAS

July 16, 1945

Phog Allen, Director of Physical Education
University of Kansas
Lawrence, Kansas

Dear Phog?:

I was interested in your recent edition of
Jayhawk Rebounds which came to Bob. Bob is now a lieu-
tenant. He spent a year in the New Guinea area as skip-
per of an L.C.T. After a short leave inthe States he is
now out as a commander of an L.C.T. group. His address
is Lt. Robert J. Gilliland, L.C.T.-6, group 97; % Fleet
Postmaster, San Franciscoe I have another gon, a former
Jayhawk, who is also in the Pacific area. I am sure he
would be glad to receive a copy of the Rebounds if you
care to add his name to the list. He was ~+7 enlistee
at the University of Kansas. At the end of his junior
year Uncle Sam put him in uniform, sent him to Oberlin
for one semester and then to a midshipman school. He is
on a destroyer oe and has seen plenty of action re=-
cently--Iwo Jima, Je Jima, Okinawa, etc. His address is
Ensign Charles ; Gilliland, U.8.8. Connolly, D.E.-306,
% Fleet Postmaster, San Francisco.

I also have a third son in the Pacific who is a lew
graduate from Denver University. He is on a B 29. He
has completed 25 or 30 missions over Japan. You spoke in
your last Rebound about brothers meeting in a battle area.
These three boys happened to be in Honolulu at the same
time about the middle of January and spent twenty-four
hours together. More recently Don, on his return from a
mission over Japan, landed at the island where Bob is
stationed and spent a couple of days with hin.

I am sure your letters to the boys are doing a lot
to maintain morale. Iwantto add my appreciation to that
of the boys for this service.

Yours very truly,