Just weeks before Pearl Harbor Jerry arrived in Cairo as ADC (aide-de-camp) to the senior US general in the Middle East, one of the first members of a U.S. military mission tasked with moving lend-lease supplies to the beleaguered British who were fighting to prevent the Germans from taking the Suez Canal and pushing through the oil fields to the east and up into the Soviet Union. His letters describe his experiences in Cairo, Palestine, Saudi Arabia, Eritrea, Ethiopia and Moscow, where he was part of Churchill delegation for the first wartime conference with Stalin.