Some of the letters from Rice alumni serving in World War II relate stories of meeting up with other former Rice students in strange circumstances and locations. This one, from Whitlock Zander ’43, describes a pretty big reunion. Although the writers often aren’t able to say where they are (and one even asked that the ARA not publish the fact that he was in the service at all) this bunch seems to have all been stationed in San Francisco:
I’m out of town this week and don’t have access to all the letters from here but I will post more of them when I’m back on campus next week.
They may not have been in San Francisco or even near there. This was just the address of the F.P.O. to which mail could be sent.
Yep: FPO = Fleet Post Office