During his senior year there, he wrote the book and co-wrote the lyrics for the 83rd annual Hasty Pudding Club musical comedy production, Fireman, Save My Child!
The interviews described and celebrated the surrender of Italian General Gazzera and were conducted following the conclusion of the Belgian campaign, a "trek of 2,500 miles through jungle swamps and desert wastes.
"[4] Hardships, heroism and aggressive action against a numerically-superior Italian force are reflected, as well as the role of the Belgian Congo Army's victory in assisting World War II Allied efforts to oppose the Axis in the colonial sphere.
Based on articles first published in the Chicago Daily News, this pamphlet joined such publications as King Leopold Vindicated in the repertoire of the Belgium Information Center.
[5] Anthony Mockler in his definitive work Haile Selassie's War: The Italian-Ethiopian Campaign, 1935–1941 states that "troops from the Belgian Congo had reached their 'theatre of operations'—the Baro Salient—in February 1941".
Giles Playfair, then of the Malaya Broadcasting Corporation, in an entry dated January 29 writes: "Outside the bank I met George Weller who told me that he was off to Java this afternoon and bade me a fond farewell.
To write about the aftermath of the Nagasaki bombing, Weller snuck away from the occupation troops and impersonated an American colonel in obtain assistance from local Japanese police.
Like Wilfred Burchett, who was reporting on Hiroshima, Weller ran into the press junket of Tex McCrary, which had been tasked to generate publicity for the United States Army Air Force, including limited coverage of the atomic bombings.
[9] In 1942 Weller interviewed crew members who witnessed an emergency appendectomy performed on USS Seadragon (SS-194) by Wheeler Bryson Lipes and other non-doctors, partly with a tea strainer and spoons.
Weller won the Pulitzer Prize for Reporting for his December 14, 1942, Chicago Daily News story "Doc" Lipes Commandeers a Submarine Officers' Wardroom".