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Randall Murrill, '.J-2, is due back at Purdue for Naval training. Brother Don Swager is at Ft. Eustis, Va., in an anti-aircraft outfit. That is about all I know about our widely scattered brothers. My job has been most interesting since I entered the service. I'm a corporal technician, fifth grade, in the Fire Direction and Instrument Section of the battalion. I compute data for the guns and our artillery to date has possession of the highest grade in the history of U. S. Artillery on any G. H. Q. tests given where actual firing has taken place. Because of this fact we are anxious to start dumping shells where they will do the most good. I am looking forward to the next issue of THE STAR _, AND LAMP, as well as to the day wnen we can have . . .i a b tg reumon. My best wishes and luck to all brothers. Fraternally, CPL. ALEXANDER LAIRD, Omega.
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Long Beach Army Air Field, 14th Ferrying Squad ., Long Beach, Calif. October 6, 1943. Dear Brother McCann: I would appreciate it if you would send me the last issue of THE STAR AND LAMP. The family at home usually forwards my copy to me but for some reason I have failed to see the last issue. I have come in contact with quite a few of the Brothers during my stay in the army and it certainly makes a fellow feel good to run into a Pi Kapp. THE STAR AND LAMP has been a great help toward keeping us men in the service in contact with each other and I look forward to every issue. I would appreciate your sending future issues to my home address: P. 0. Box 55, Conway, S. C. The family will continue to forward them to me. Am looking .forward to the Pi Kapp reunions after' the war. Fraternally,
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Excerpts of letter~. written to J. AI. Head, Editor of Service Stars, Service Publication of Alpha Zeta. Somewhere in North Africa, July 18, 1943. Dear Al: . .. I want you to know how much I appreciate what you are doing and I think all of the other boys in the service feel pretty much the same way. Hate to think of the active chapter being disbanded for the duration, but it is just one of those things, I guess. I certainly hope that these young fellows that are being forced to miss college now have an opportunity when this is over to go back, because I am certainly grateful for those four years, personally. As to keeping track of the alums, AI, I, personally, think it is important. When we all get back from this mess it is going to be hard for us to find ourselves in a lot of cases. Naturally most of us are going to be changed and we must face the fact that things there are going to be a good deal different than the place we left. It will be worth a lot to get together with old friends and kind of talk things over. A lot of water bas passed under the bridge since I last wrote you. I was in New York City on New Year's Eve and left the States shortly thereafter. We landed in Casablanca and were there for awhile. Then we convoyed overland to Constantine, Algeria where we put on the finishing touches and then headed for the Tunisian front. We saw our first real action at Maknassy. It was pretty rough there for awhile. We learned how dive bombers operated, bow 88's sounded and quite a bit which might be considered as part of our baptism of fire. It was right in the middle of the Maknassy affair that my Boss was given a different job and I was given command. From then on I bad so much to think about that I hardly had time to be scared. From there we went up to the Mateur area and were in on the big final push there. We were right in front on the day of the surrender and helped round up the prisoners. That was a sight that you will never be able to imagine unless you ac(ually saw it. I missed part of the souvenir bunting, bowever, as one of my lieutenants found a German Lieut. General and his staff 17