Correspondence from War Department  to Grady McMurtry

War Department

Office of the Chief of Engineers

Washington

9 August 1943

Grady L. McMurtry,

2nd Lt. Ordnance,

1803rd Ord S&M Co (Avn),

68th Service Group,

APO 182, Unit 1,

c/o Postmaster,

Los Angeles, California.

Dear Lieutenant McMurtry:

We are very grateful for your thoughtfulness in sending us your composition entitled "The Combat Engineers."

With your permission we will send it to THE MILITARY ENGINEER for publication as one of a series they have been publishing for some time. Some time within the next six months these songs are to be gathered into an Engineer Song Book.

If there are any further details concerning its publication, you will probably hear direct from Colonel J. Franklin Bell, Editor, THE MILITARY ENGINEER.

For the Chief of Engineers:

Very truly yours,

R. P. ROSENGEEN,

Lt. Col., Corps of Engineers,

Chief, Technical Information Branch.