February 12, 1944, letter from a Cal Tech pal named "Dix" to Arnie. Parris Island, South Carolina, is a Marine Corps recruit training center. An important ship building company during World War II, Kaiser Shipyards were a cluster of shipyards on the U.S. west coast, mostly around Richmond, California.
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