I've been scanning my dad's World War II diary. He was a B-25 bomber pilot. Here's his entry for today 74 years ago:
15 June 1945 Friday
Got up at 0530. Ate and went back to bed until 0725. I went to the line and went on my 12th mission over Borneo. We went from Beanfort to Langhon up the valleys and mountains. It was really interesting. The mission lasted 5 hours. I took pictures with the gun camera of a 13,000 foot mountain and our landing. I went swimming. I slept until 1700. Ate went to a meeting at 1800. Went to a show. Saw “Brewster’s Millions”. It was good & I finished my letter to Ruth. I got one from her and 3 Oregonians.
The Oregonian had a miniature serviceman's edition. Each page was 8-1/2"x11" with the double page being 17"x11". It had eight pages. Content was a normal front page miniaturized, another page of national news, then a page of local news, editorial page, another page of local news with half the page being comics, a society page with half the page being comics, a sports page, and the final page was a photo essay on a war event in the two editions we have.
