HEADQUARTERS
14TH ANTIAIRCRAFT COMMAND
APO 75, September 5

Phog:

Please excuse the lousy typing you aredbout to read, but I can get more
on a page this way. T have just received the June 25 Rebounds and I think
that I haven't missed an issue since you first started sending them to me.

I want to repeat what has heen said many times and has been thought by every
man who has received the Rebounds-- it's the finest Stateside morale keeper-
-upper publication in the business; that is of cougse excluding the letters
from the 1il woman. Now that V-J Day has thrust itself upon us I hope

you won't forget about us pointless wonders who got over here late and will
probably have to remain to help close the gate.

I have run across: fery few KU people in my Army travels so far. Hoyt
Baker worked in my section at Camp Edwards for a short time in 1943 and I
saw Ray Evans in El Paso last October following the 2nd Airforce-New Mexico
fracas.

War has taken its toll of some especially fine boys. I particularly
remember the day Fred Eberhardt came into the office to get the dope on
- applying for Marine Corps OCS... He must have made one of the best Marinef
Officers: in the businesse.

While I was in California before I left the States I had a chance to
run up to Palo Alto and see Ruth and Burt DeGroot. We had a lot of fun
together. Burt has gone all out for volleyball in those west coast bases
and plays himself morning noon and night to hear Ruth tell it. He was also
involved in some Physical Training movie production work at the time t was
there.

I'M back in the school business again--in fact I have never been out of it.

This time I am Education Officer for 14th Aktiaircraft Command, in charge

of plans for supervision of the Army Education Program in most of the AAA

units over here. You are no doubt familiar with the War Department plans

for giving the soldiers a chance to start preparing themselves for that

Civilian job they expect to go back to. We hope as soon as things settle

down to have a rather elaborate educational program gofing on all over the

place to ocaupy the time of the men until they can get on the boat and go

home. I've only been working at this thing for about three weeks but it

looks as if it might develop into something pretty big.

Censorship is no more==S0 t can say that I am comfortably located in
Manila, near the Wack-"ack Country Club,if you ever played golf over here.
The climate is pretty tot and sticky raéght now but we have plenty of water
for showers and the nights are cool so, aside from being Vdddy¥/ff47 lonely
for my family I'm living very well. I get down town to hear the Manila
Symphony es out every other week and we have movies every other night.

My wife and little boy are living there in Lawrence now=- perhaps you've
seen them. If you get to see the kid, pat him on the head for me--then maybe
he‘ll"grow up to be a basketball player like his dad never got arouiAto being.

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