Letters to the Family

date description 02/10/1942 Spanish useful 04/27/1942 reflections on visit home 07/01/1942 one year in 07/01/1942 swimming, guns 07/14/1942 sick bay, finances 07/14/1942 60th reg in Look 07/21/1942 out of sick bay, KP duty 08/01/1942 luxury liner duty 08/08/1942 on alert, no furloughs 08/08/1942 new rifle practice 08/16/1942 future plans uncertain 08/26/1942 Betty Grable, leaves cancelled 09/08/1942 training accelerated 09/14/1942 made PFC 09/26/1942 living in tents ? newspaper clipping     date description 10/07/1942 Raleigh trip, mums the word 10/07/1942 football advice 10/09/1942 bad news/good news 11/xx/1942 headed for Africa 11/13/1942 babtism of fire 11/27/1942 Thanksgiving 12/12/1942 one page Christmas letter 12/31/1942 expecting end of war soon 01/15/1943 send soap, razors, flashlight. I'll be home next Christmas 01/31/1943 Martha Raye, erratic mail delivery, forgetting Spanish 03/14/1943 air raid, rain and mud 04/19/1943 enemy came out second, I'm still in one piece 06/15/1943 flies, rice pudding with raisins 06/28/1943 flies, movies 07/04/1943 2nd anniversary in army, swimming in the Mediterranean

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