Part I: Pages 1-18

Thomas Kindre's diary opens with a descriptive observation of the African theater (Tunis, Oran, Morris, Constantine). Apparently, he was in Oran at the time. He describes the physical layout of the cities, buildings, landscape, the winery, school camps, prisoners, and the Mediterranean area. He also lists such things as the monetary conversions of dollars in Italy, Africa, U.S., Britain, and France. He also lists the books that were available to patients at the 151st Station Hospital in Oran, where he stayed for a while.

Kindre was very detailed in his description of people he met, such as Edward Chidiac, a newspaper editor for the AP Service (page 7), and an Italian man he met in Naples, who once traveled with the San Carlo Opera Company (page 9).

Kindre was very detailed in his description of people he met, such as Edward Chidiac, a newspaper editor for the AP Service (page 7), and an Italian man he met in Naples, who once traveled with the San Carlo Opera Company (page 9).

In addition to making notes of various movies, USO shows, and books that entertained Kindre, he also mentions several important events, such as the deadline set for the Air Offensive, and Invasion of Europe, people that were killed, troop movements, supplier duties, the 8th Army fronts, divisions relief, rumor of new actions, and major political events, such as that between Roosevelt, Stalin, Churchill and Chiang (Tehran).

Lastly, Kindre paraphrases an Italian man with whom he spoke, indicating the sour mood in Italy by 1943: The "wealthy Italians saw war was lost, they converted all their money into real property."