Mello, Frank Cardoza

Frank Mello was a Cape Cod, Massachusetts resident who served on the island of Guam in the Pacific Ocean during World War II. Details of his service are not generally known but he describes his time on Guam as uneventful and, in at least one entry as, "boring". In the diary Mello writes briefly about meeting Michael Angel Olano, Bishop of Guam (also known as, Bishop Leon Miguel Angel Olano y Urteaga) and speaking with him in Portuguese. As he records it he finally saw his wife and children, after sixteen months, in Boston on November 22, 1945 when he was discharged. Although he records no involvement in action with the Japanese he was wounded in a hunting accident on December 3, 1945.