Word Is Received of Sioux Cityans in Fighting Zone
Charles M. McClaren, 1022 Douglas Street, received a card from his son, Robert L. McClaren, a warrant officer stationed on a ship in the Pacific, stating that he “was O.K. and very busy.” The son did not state where his ship was. The father stated that the card had been censored.
“Everything is fine” at barracks near Pearl Harbor and the field artillery men are eager for a chance to strike back at the Japanese, William H. McFadden, Sioux City boy and a nephew of Mrs. Clarence Martin, 912 ½ Grandview Boulevard, said in the letter to Mrs. Martin mailed in Honolulu the day after Christmas. Mrs. Martin received the letter Wednesday.
Source: The Sioux City Journal, January 1, 1942
