WACs in New Guinea + current news Aug 23 Posted by GP WACs in New Guinea, 1944 In June 1944, about the same time that Smitty landed in New Guinea, Gen. Kenney of the 5th Air Force started building up a WAC detachment in Australia. He had nearly 200 women in the HQ doing the secretarial […]
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Letter XI “Java at 2100” Aug 9 Posted by GP 503rd Regiment at Noemfoer, 2 July 1944 Off New Guinea, the resistance on Biak and Noemfoor Islands was crushed as 2,000 paratroopers of the 503rd jumped and the land forces of the 158th RCT overtook the airfields. Operation Cyclone was a success. The 503rd A/B would […]
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Letter VIII G.I. Labor by G.P. Cox ou may notice in Smitty’s letters that he does not mention his rigorous training or even combat in his later ones. As a child I asked if I would ever catch him in one of the old news reels and he said that he surely doubted it. Read […]
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