In spare moments between the hottest fighting on Guadalcanal, about 40 U.S. servicemen swatted mosquitoes, sweated over correspondence-school lessons. When they had done their homework, they mailed it to the University of Hawaii, a branch of Usafi (U.S. Armed Forces Institute). Last week the number of fighting men taking correspondence courses from Usafi was not far from 30,000, more than half of them overseas.
Some students on the rolls last week:
> Sergeant Albert Joseph Erickson of Chicago, on duty with a South Pacific mobile reconnaissance squadron. His third test paper on the duties...
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