End of Radio School/How's the War Going?

The last few weeks of radio school went quickly and we were now Radiomen 3rd Class. We all prepared to board a train for Oceanside, CA where we would practice landing craft exercises at the Boat Basin.
Since the end of Boot Camp we found out how the war was going: July 1943: Soviets win largest tank battle of the war; Allies land in Sicily; Soviet summer offensive begins; U.S. troops enter Palermo, Italy; Mussolini overthrown, new government formed. Pacific: two large Naval Battles in the Soloman Is., and Japanese evacuate Kiska, Aleutian Is. Aug: USAAF bomb Ploesti Oil Fields, Romania, 50 of 177 bombers lost; Messina falls, Sicily ours; Disastrous USAAF raid on Scheinfurt & Regensburg; Soviets retake Karkov; New Georgia captured in Pacific and Naval Battle of Solomon Is.; Japanese resistance ends on New Georgia; Sep: Italian government accepts armistice; Allies land at Salerno and Taranto; German commandos rescue Mussolini, and Soviets recapture Smolensk; Allies & Australia land on New Guinea; Oct: U.S. troops enter Naples and British enter Foggia; Soviets launch offensive toward Baltic States; U.S. 5th crosses Volturno River, Italy; Stilwell's Chinese troops advance in Burma; Australians take Finschaven in New Guinea; Naval Battle off New Georgia; U.S. aircraft raid Rabaul Naval Base; Nov: Soviets retake Kiev; air battle of Berlin; British forces assault Gustav Line; U.S. Marines land on Bouganville, Tarawa and Makin, Gilbert Is.; Dec: Soviets launch offensive in Ukraine; Scharnhorst sunk; U.S. forces land in New Britain. Continued.