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Ensign -H..W. .gtawits, U.S.N.R., U.S,S. Donaldson (D E - 44), c/o Fleet
Post Office, San Francisec, California, says, "I received two of your. "Rebounds"
recently. They were mich avpréciated. Everybooy is hepped up over. the war’; news.
The boys are betting on the menths instead of years to whe end now. Tne lasc time.
in port, I ran into another Kansan, Lt. (j.g.) Pettey, who was coach at Tuvne
High School. I received a letter from Frank Pattee and he informed me he is out
of the Navy and returning to K.U. this Fall. Thanks again for the "Rebcunds", all
the officers have béen reading them and even though not Kansans they enjoy them."

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Major Frank Anneberg, Post I & E Branch, Camp Butner, N.C., received his
masters in education here in 1937. He made Ripley's "Believe It Or Not" column by
an acrobatic act of standing on his head and drinking one quart of water in that
position from a quart jar. Frank is now the post Information and Ejucavtion Offi-
cer. He inclosed a newspaper clipping with a photograph which shows him in class
Ciscussing the latest secret weapon unleashed on the Japs by the United Ctotes in
an informal class held Wednesday afternoon. A brief outline explains the latest
details to the group and then the soldiers get a chance to give their own opinions
or ask questions on the atomic bomb. Frank writes, "We are expecting an addition
+40 our family about the first of September. A future Jayhawk about 1962. My wife
and davgnter Victory Lee, aged 2, are very excited about the big event. ‘T.begin
my sixth year of active duty on the first of September. Due to the type of work
that I do, I will probably be one of the last to don civilian clothes. I would
give a lot to be standing in that "registration line" again."

Captain Harley L. Anderson, 0-1575680, 1274th A.A.F. Base Unit, A.P.0O.
600, c/o P.M., New-York, N:¥., in his letter reveals this information. "Been ages
since I last wrote you, but it isn't that my thoughts haven't drifted back many ~
times te old Mt. Oread, for they have. It's just that letter writing is rather
difficult when on the move." |

"During all this time the. "Rebounds". have been coming in regularly and
certainly are enjoyable to read. I find the "special feature stories," such as
the one apout Bill Johnson, particularly interesting since they occurred long be-
fore my time at K.U. I had heard of them vaguely but never knew the complete de-
tails." on

"Was not long after V-E Day until our bomb group left England. Flew in
B-17s down to Casablanca where we were assigned to Air Transport Command*and the
group de-activated. After a month in Casaplanca, I was gent down here to nelp
build three emergency fields on the mew coastal route between Casablanca and Dakar.
This particular place, Villa Cisneros, belongs to the Spanish ard anout the first
tine we've used any of their territory. Itis a very isolated place with no towns
for hundreds of miles. Hvevythinz, inclucing fresh water, has to be flown in.
I'm picking up Spaaish, (none ot them speak English) pretty fast, but conversation
is still a tedious process." ; a :

"I em awfully sorry to hear about Howard Englenen being injured. "Rope"
was alvays a great puy in everything and J truly hope he comes out of this all.
right. One of my brothers ts in Germary with the Military Intelligence Service,
and mv youngest brother is at De Pauw University in the V-l2 progiam. Please note ©

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