The Snapshots in Time Collection
Newspaper Clipping: "What Do You Do With the Office Boy When He Comes Back a Major?" - Reconversion Poem, HQ China Wing ATO
A wartime newspaper clipping from the McAleer family collection reproduces "Reconversion," an anonymous poem popular among G.I.s of the China-Burma-India theater. Datelined from Headquarters, China Wing, Air Transport Command, the piece humorously reflects on the loss of military rank and status that awaited many officers upon their return to civilian life at the close of World War II. Project: 218143