Monthly Archives: May 2013

May 16, 1943 – Sunday

Not much happened today. We had the day off and all we had to do was cleaning and care of equipment. I went down to the crick and took a bath, came back, wrote a few letters, listened to the … Continue reading

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May 15, 1943 – Saturday

One of my buddies was blown up yesterday while out cleaning an S-mine field. We are on our way to Philippeville. It has been a nice trip and I have seen many move interesting sights. We came across some sand … Continue reading

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May 14, 1943 – Friday

We worked around and did odd jobs all morning and in the afternoon went to Bizerte. We went down on the beach for a swim and tried out some German and Italian explosives. Some of them are pretty powerful. We … Continue reading

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Letter home – May 13, 1943

Dear Mother & Dad; Boy will ever be glad when I can write something in a letter. You have all been trying to guess where I’m at but you are all wrong. You should probably tell where were I’m at … Continue reading

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May 13, 1943 – Thursday

I went out today to blow up a few duds. We had quite a time only some shrapnel came to close once or twice. We just messed around in the afternoon and in the evening we had mail call and … Continue reading

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May 12, 1943 – Wednesday

We unloaded the supply truck and straightened up things around. I did a little laundry and just messed around the rest of the day. We went over and talked to the English soldiers a while and then went to bed.

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May 11, 1943 – Tuesday

The company is out cleaning mine fields and we are moving over closer to Ferryville up on the Bizerte Lake. The land that we are bivouac on must have been a long battle field as it is carved with shell … Continue reading

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May 10, 1943 – Monday

I’ll be a son-of-a-gun if the work up here didn’t end too soon and we didn’t get in on it. Some of the drivers were hauling prisoners back last night and they said that German and Italy were all finished. … Continue reading

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May 9, 1943 – Sunday

Here we are laying around and waiting to go there has been all types of big guns rolling by all morning. Also the new 50 ton Churchill tank. There is plenty of excitement now, and many interesting sights to see. … Continue reading

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May 8, 1943 – Saturday

We worked most of the day cleaning up the rifles and machine guns. I cleaned 12 rifles and 3 machine guns. We received orders to move again and we are going right up to the front. We sand bagged the … Continue reading

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