MELVIN H. KIPP—went into the Army in April, spent 6 months at Camp Robinson, Arkansas, and left in October for the Pacific war. He is now doing quartermaster duty on an island in the South Pacific. He wrote that he spent Christmas day swatting mosquitoes and thinking of the days when White Christmas was something he always took for granted.
Source: LeMars Globe-Post, March 18, 1943 (photo included)
***Further Research:
Melvin Henry Kipp was born July 23, 1912 to Henry John and Myra Katherine Gengler Kipp. He died July 13, 1973 and is buried in Calvary Cemetery, Wichita Falls, KS.
Source: ancestry.com
