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[*Poem also appears in "Fragments of Rhyme and Reason" collection. Versions may vary slightly.]
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MEMOIRS: "ALONG THE WAY"
PREFACE
PART 1: THE EARLY YEARS
Chapter 1: A Time of Beginning
Chapter 2: Once More Without the Band
Chapter 3: Blue Valley
Chapter 4: Workaday World

PART 2: NAVAL OFFICER
Chapter 1: Call to Colors
Chapter 2: Road to Berlin
Chapter 3: Paris Peace Conference

PART 3: PILGRIM IN THE CIA
Chapter 1: National Intelligence Estimates
Chapter 2: Central Reference Services
Chapter 3: Directorate of Intelligence
Chapter 4: Foreign Broadcast Information Service
Chapter 5: Faraway Places

PART 4: ENCOUNTERS
PART 5: FAMILY TIES
PART 6: THE LATER YEARS

PHOTOS
"LETTERS FROM WORLD WAR II"
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Bios of Paul, Pete, John, and Mark Borel
Page 1
John - Fort Sill, Oklahoma - 11 Dec. 1941
Pete - Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands - 16 Feb. 1943
Pete - Guadalcanal - 13 Dec. 1943
Pete - Undated, probably Guadalcanal, late 1943
Pete - Guadalcanal - 13 Apr. 1944
Paul - Aboard USS THOMAS JOHNSON in English Channel off Cherbourg - 29 June 1944

Page 2
Paul - Cherbourg - 12 July 1944
Paul - Cherbourg - 31 July 1944
Excerpts from The Invasion of France and Germany, History of United States Naval Operations in World War II, Vol. XI, by Samuel Eliot Morison (Little, Brown and Co. (1957))
Paul - Cherbourg - 29 Sept. 1944
Paul - Le Havre - 12 Oct. 1944
Paul - Brussels, Belgium - 14 Jan. 1945
Paul - Brussels - 19 Jan. 1945
Paul - Brussels - 22 Jan. 1945

Page 3
Pete - somewhere in the Philippines - 3 Feb. 1945
Ship's Log of the USS BOREL - 11 Feb. 1945 (birth notice of Mark's son)
Mark to Paul - Oahu Island - 12 Mar. 1945
The Tides of War in the Pacific 1941-1945 (chronology)
Paul - Brussels - 3 Apr. 1945
Paul - Versailles, France - 3 May 1945
Pete - Naval Auxilliary Air Station, Kingsville, Texas - 3 May 1945
Paul - Versailles - 8 May 1945
Pete - Kingsville - 8 May 1945
Pete - Kingsville - 15 May 1945
Pete - Kingsville - 1 June 1945
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Page 4
Paul - Hoechst, Germany - 2 June 1945
Official Navy War Diary - USS HOGGATT BAY (CVE 75) - 7 June 1945
Mark to Paul - USS HOGGATT BAY, vicinity Okinawa - 9 June 1945
John - Iwo Jima - 11 June 1945
Pete - Kingsville, Texas - 14 June 1945
John - Iwo Jima - 27 June 1945
John - Iwo Jima - 8 July 1945
Mark - USS HOGGATT BAY, San Pedro Bay, Leyte - 8 July 1945
Paul - Berlin - 12 July 1945
Potsdam Conference (17 July - 2 Aug. 1945):
  Excerpt - James F. Byrnes, Speaking Frankly (p. 67-69 passim).
  Excerpt - Charles L. Mee, Jr., Meeting at Potsdam (p. 114).

Page 5
Excerpt - General Lucius Clay, Decision in Germany (p. 44).
Paul - Berlin - 21 July 1945
Mark - USS HOGGATT BAY, San Pedro Bay, Leyte Gulf - 25 July 1945
Excerpt - Walter Millis, Editor, The Forrestal Diaries (p. 79) (29 July 1945).
Paul - Berlin - 30 July 1945
Paul - Berlin - 3 Aug. 1945
Pete - Naval Auxilliary Air Station, Kingsville, Texas - 14 Aug. 1945
John - Iwo Jima - 14 Aug. 1945
Paul - Berlin - 15 Aug. 1945
Mark - USS HOGGATT BAY, Steaming for Adak, Aleutians - 16 Aug. 1945

Page 6
Paul - Germany - 8 Sept. 1945
John - Iwo Jima - 11 Sept. 1945
Mark - USS HOGGATT BAY, off Japan - 14 Sept. 1945
Paul - Berlin - 28 Oct. 1945

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For more World War II letters, go to Memoirs: “Along the Way,” Part 2: Naval Officer, Chapters 2 and 3. (Click here.)
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"INTERLAKEN INTERLUDE" (Journal of a trip to Switzerland with daughters Elaine and Jane.)
"THE CAT WITH THE BOILED ALPINE HAT" (Anecdote)
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