The following July 6, 1944, Lowell Tribune article was found on page 5, column 2:
Last week-end, Mrs. John Connelly visited her husband at Great Lakes, where he is taking his boot training. She was an over-night guest in the home of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Schafer in Waukegan, who were formerly from this vicinity.
This March 22, 1945, Lowell Tribune article was found on page 2, column 1:
Word has been received by his wife from John Connelly, S 1/c, saying that all is well with him at his post "somewhere in the Pacific." John wants to receive more news from home, so his wife has ordered The Tribune sent to him.
This November 22, 1945, Lowell Tribune article was found on page 2, columns 1-2:
John Connelly, S 2/c, route 2, Lowell, Ind., and other crewmen of the floating drydock ARD-13, the Navy's newly revised ship histories will show, avoided the loss of 48 precious hours when they refused to allow a 55-mile-an-hour typhoon to interfere with their repair work on a damaged destroyer during the height of the Pacific campaign.
Warned in advance when the typhoon headed toward the south Pacific area where the ARD-13 was then assigned, all vessels able to move out to sea under their own power left before the blast struck. But units with no propulsion, such as the ARD-13, were left to themselves to fight the storm.
Sizing up the situation, the crew of the floating drydock decided to ignore the storm's menace. The ship rode out the blow without once stopping her rebuilding work.
This Lowell Tribune article was found in the January 10, 1946, issue (page 8, column 4):
Word from Great Lakes says that Lewis Stowell, MM 2/c, and John Connelly, S 2/c have received their discharges from the navy.