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Volume
1, No. 1 of "The Shemya Mailbag" was
printed in June of 1987. In the words of Dan Lange,
Editor and chief bottle washer of The Shemya
Mailbag, the newsletter "is for those people
who served on Shemya and who now belong to the
Shemya Veterans of W.W.II. Through these pages we
can re-live the days of 40 years ago when we were
put on that 2x4 mile piece of tundra to defend our
country. We can talk of the good and the bad times
of things that took place in a different world than
the one we live in today." Dan Lange, who
graciously supplied the P-38 "Little
Butch" photos seen on the Shemya WWII pages, was
also the crew chief of the "Little Butch,"
and was stationed on Shemya during WWII. Volume 8 No
3, published in September of 1994, was the last
issue of The Shemya Mailbag to be published.

Dan Lange,
June 1999 |

Dan Lange,
Standing, 1946 |
My
goal is to extract selected articles from issues of
The Shemya Mailbag supplied by Dan, and make them
available to Shemya web site visitors. I'll attempt
to keep them in some sort of chronological order.
They are in Adobe Acrobat (PDF) format, which will
require you to either have a stand-alone copy of
Adobe Acrobat Reader (available for free from http://www.adobe.com,
in which case you'd have to download the file and
read it from your hard drive) or the Adobe Acrobat
Reader Plug-in (also free, allows you to read the
documents on-line) for your browser. I'd recommend
downloading the Reader Plug-in for your browser if
you're browser is capable of using it. As I get each
article prep'd and uploaded, I'll add it to this
page.
For
additional articles about Attu during WWII, see
"Attu
War Stories," extracted from the WWII War
Department book, supplied by Rene "Frenchy"
Thibault, titled "The Capture of
Attu."
Smitty

Currently Available
Stories
- Life Payment (Blood Chit),
by J.R.Bailey (1941)
- My Recollections of the
404th Bomb Squadron, by T.O.Williams
(1941,1942...)
- The Bill Butkovic Story, by
Bill Butkovic (1942)
- R.A.F. P-38, Dan Lange
(1942)
- Aleutian Medic, by Robert
Lynch (1942-1944)
- Chronology of the Aleutian
Campaign, Compiled by Dan Lange (1942-1945)
- Jefferson Barracks, by
Charles Reynolds (Date Unk.)
- Army Life During W.W. II,
by Dwight Ringland (1943)
- Air Battle For Attu, by
Harry Higgins (May 1943)
- First Landing On Shemya, by
Ed Havlik (May 1943)
- Construction of a
Forward Airbase: Shemya, by Capt. James L. Ross
(May 1943 - Dec 1945)
- An Aleutian Journey, by Lt.
Col. Eugene M. Landrum, Jr. (May 1943-1952)
- Diary of 2nd Lt. Larry
Reineke, by Larry Reineke (Jul-Aug 1943)
- War Stories, By Harry
Higgins (Sep-Oct 1943)
- Christmas 1944/1945, by
Hank Frese (Dec 1944)
- Random Thoughts of Shemya,
by Ted Gawlicki (1944)
- Luck Was With Me, by Judson
Mills (Dec 1944)
- A Record Breaking Flight,
by Col. John Hed, USAF-Ret.(1944-1945)
- The Cruise Of The BSP 1923,
by Admiral Harry Bailey (1944-1945)
- A Whale of a Tale, by Jim
Sample (Jun 1945)
- B-24 Raid on Paramushiro,
by Richard Korpanty (1945)
- A Christmas Message, from
Fr Lawrence O.S.B. (Dec 1945)
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