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President D. B. Tresidder
Stanford University
California

Dear Sir:

Your greeting to us grads of long standing finds two of us here in the land down under at this post on a coconut plantation between the jungle and the deep blue sea in Northern Papua.

Lt. Colonel G.T. Wright, class of [1927?], is chief of the Transportation Corps Section at the headquarters, and this WACO is having a most interesting job contributing to the history of this war in the SW PA. My main work is historian of this headquarters and all New Guinea [Bares?] as we roll up the [rear?] in this last long act in the Pacific Theater. Arriving in Australia with the first WAC Detachment in the SW PA, I was down on the mainland five weeks before coming up to New Guinea last June 1944.

Our WAC camp - "The [Wackery?]" as our Australian friends called it - down over the [Hump?] was a good location, as camps go; and my work there, also a phase of security, was exceedingly interesting. We worked long hours,