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 (McAleer Collection)

Newspaper Clipping: 'What Do You Do With the Office Boy When He Comes Back a Major?' - Reconversion Poem, HQ China Wing (McAleer Collection)

A wartime newspaper clipping reprinting the popular anonymous poem 'Reconversion,' distributed by International News Service from Headquarters, China Wing, in September of the war years. The poem wryly captures the anxieties of returning servicemen facing a reduction in status as they transitioned from military rank back to civilian jobs. Project: 218163