"Two Lonely Men" is an unpublished short story by J. D. Salinger.
The setting is an Army base in Georgia, where the narrator details the developing friendship of two officers.
One, a Captain, has a wife who visits and subsequently describes an affair she had while he was stationed.
At the close of the story, the Captain approaches the narrator and tells him he has requested a transfer, because he now does not like the other officer.
The story was written in 1944,[1] while Salinger was stationed at Bainbridge Air Base, Georgia.