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Harold H. Howey, Sm 1/c, Naval Operating Base, Navy 3256 - B-L4F, c/o F.P.0O.
San Francisco, California, former Iola High School star, and certainly one of the
scintillsting stars for the Olathe Naval Base, writes that he is longing to get out
of the service and to complete his college education. Here's wishing you all kinds
of good luck Harold, and may your intercollegiate career be as promising as were
your high school and service records.

Captain John Pfitsch, formerly of Pflugerville, not Ft. Worth, (we do not
have his address but he certainly did not have a chance to get over to see the Nips
before peace was declared. He was all hepped up om going.) dropped in on us from
overseas. John called us from Syracuse, N.Y. ,where he had been to pay his respects
to the wife of his closest buddy who wes killed in Germany near the close of the
war. John's buddy left a baby whom he had never’seen, and John was doing his sol-
dier duty to tell the young wife of the associations the two had together in Europe.
John came on to Lawrence and.spent the night with us. A student mixer, "The Corn
Meal Shuffle" was taking place in front of Bailey Hall out’on the concrete driveway,
John had a fine time visiting with Dean and Normal Nesmith, Derizel Gibbons, and a
host of friends who greeted him with great joy. Capt. John Pfitsch has been a real
officer and has an outStanding war record. He is the same unspoiled Texan who came
up here to get his master's degree in education. As-§o0o0n as John can get mustered
out, he is returning for his doctorate here at Mt. Oread. It was swell to see you
Jonn, and you have lost none of the winsome personality and engaging conversation,

On the heels of John Pfitsch came personable Howard Engleman whdse hair
is darker and straight. He had it all burned off at Okinawa. Howard is a little
thinner, but his twinkling eyes speak the same human Engleman as he was when he was
on the campus. When a Japanese Kamikaze suicider hit Howard's Ship, Howard was en-
tirely engulfed in flaming ‘gasoline. He jumped into the ocean and was in there five |
hours, coming out badly burned. After a half a dozen’ transfusions, Howard made the
grade. They later flew him from Okinawa Hospital to Oakland, California, at. Oak
Knoll Hospital. On July 5, Engleman was sent to Norman, Oklahoma and he was on a
thirty day convalescent leave from July 30 to August 19. At Oak Knoll, "Rope" saw
Wayne "Bill" Replogle and Eddie Hall. Howard's wife and son, Howard Dodge Engleman,
are at Salina. To demonstrate that "Rope" has lost none of his wise-cracking, How-—
ard stated that his brother, who is an engineer: with Phillips Petroleum Company, had
a son while Howard was on sea duty. Howard stated that his brother had named the
son, Howard John, fearing that Howard would not return, and he would have a namesake
for him. Then, with that famous twinkle, "Rope" smiled and said, "I bet he is darn
sorry of it now." .

Howard is expecting to come back to take his Law Degree as soon as he is
discharged from. the hospital.

We then discussed the warseriously, Howard said he nor any of the other
boys, could see how the war .was going to end in less than three to five years, even
right up until the last. He said when you are out there seeing your buddies being
killed all around you, you naturally think the next one may hit you. And there is-
n't any way that you could see a short- termination of the war. I talked with Cap~
tain Johnny Pfitsch about the war's horrors, and he said that the most terrible
experience, so far as he was concerned, were the bombings. Johnny said, "You just
never could get used to them and that I dreaded them more than anything else." And
Johnny was just speaking of the ordinary bomb, not the atomic bomb.

The. atomic bomb blew the Nips into perdition, blew Uncle Joe Stalin off
the fence, and gave the Japs an atomic-ache.