>From scrapbook in possession of the Pierce County Historical Association (please note, I am just posting, I have NO further info on this family) Newspaper is possibly the Spring Valley Sun, date unknown. CORP. FRANK DUCKLOW AT HOME FROM ITALY Cpl. Frank Ducklow came home last week from the Italian front ** ** ** a member of the United States ** ** three years and in the Europ* ** ** for two years. Frank is in perfect health and ** ** happy to get home. He last ** ** Valley in the early months of 19** ** was in June of 1942 that Frank ** ** England. Frank was sent to a bakers; scho*** the Quartermasters Corps, and th* he has been a great outdoor man fr** boyhood on, his entire army life has be** spent in baking bread-first for the ** corps and later for the artillery boys. >From England Frank was sent to A*rica, landing there with the advance supplies just a few days after the invasion took place. Most of his time in Africa was spent in or near the big coast towns. When the Germans were pushed off the African continent with the Italians, Frank (and the several thousands of other American boys there) did a little sightseeing. He visited Oran, Algier and many of the other coastal towns. During this time Frank met several other boys from the Spring Valley vicinity-Dale Sorenson, Curtis Jahr, Donnie Young and Russell Lancaster. Following the invasion of Sicility and Italy, Frank's unit was moved into Italy, missing Sicility entirely, which he said was all right by him. One of the big thrills of the stay in Italy was witnessing the eruption of Mt. Vesuvius; Mother Nature gave the visiting boys a real taste of total war. Frank is saying very little about the war. His remark about it is, "You know more about it back here than I do." Yet he casually tells of watching (through field glasses) the shelling of the famous monastery above Cassino. Yes, the army bakers must be close-up, because the boys get good food and it is fresh. At present, Frank is at home on delayed orders, enroute to his permanent camp in the East. He hopes that by the time he gets there his pay checks will have arrived, as he hasn't been paid in more than four months. **Clipping cut off on the right, could not ascertain the words.