Your Son, ‘Chick’
Category Archives: 1942
Dec 17, 1942 – Thursday
The days are all about the same. Today we are going to have some French officers and non Commission officers come here to learn our way of handling Engineer equipment. They got to go to the head of Chow line … Continue reading
Letter Home – December 16, 1942
Dear Mother & Dad, Here goes another letter and I hope you can make some sense out of it. We had a storm the other night and boy did it ever rain. We are sleeping in the big supply tent … Continue reading
Dec 16, 1942 – Wednesday
What do you know, we had to stand reveille this morning. We had got away with it for quite a while though. We have been having a clothing check all day and will have quite a job ahead of us … Continue reading
Dec 15, 1942 – Tuesday
It was blowing very hard this morning and we were wondering when our tent was going to blow away. Most of the fellows pup tents were full of water and part of them had blown away. Boy was it a … Continue reading
Dec 14, 1942 – Monday
We didn’t have very much to do today so I read a book most of the day. I had to dry out a few gloves that had got wet. It looks as if it is going to rain. Boy when … Continue reading
Dec 13, 1942 – Sunday
Well we didn’t go to Rabat to mass but instead we went to mass out in the field. It was held at the 3rd Med. We had a good dinner today. We had French bread instead of old hard biscuits … Continue reading
Letter Home – December 12, 1942
Dear Mother & Dad & All, Here I am allowed only one letter for Christmas so you tell everyone Merry Christmas for me. You and Gee take my money I have at home and buy every one a present that … Continue reading
Dec 12, 1942 – Saturday
It rained a little last night but not much. Wellman (Kleon Wellman) has gone to town so Badali and I each have a job to do. He is going to the Ordnance and I have an all morning job of … Continue reading
Dec 11, 1942 – Friday
Well so far it hasn’t rained but it sure looks as if it’s going to. I don’t know if we are going to get our clothes dry or not. We have left them out for a while and then took … Continue reading
Dec 10, 1942 Thursday
Here we have been here about a week now and I have forgot to mention that we are bivouac in a cork Forrest. It takes so many years for it to be time to cut the cork loose again. They … Continue reading
