Category Archives: 1943

We were woken up at 10:30 P.M. last night and went down to load on. I got aboard about 1:00 A.M. we spent the rest of the day in the chamber. This is a British ship taking us over and … Continue reading →

Well there’s not much to do today. We packed up everything and now we are laying around waiting to move. I suppose we will go help the 5th Army out at Salerno. Just call the 3rd division and everyone starts … Continue reading →

I was up most of the night getting in supplies and spent all day issuing them out. We worked hard all day and when night time came I was pretty tired. Giese, Towslee, and I went over to see a … Continue reading →

We laid around all morning until dinner time. We left 1:00 P.M. for Palermo to the staging area. We arrived at about 6:30. We were tired so I went to bed early.

I am going in town on pass.  Breunig and I was sick all night last night and feel pretty tough today. Maybe I’ll better later on. We had just arrived upon top of the hill when Sgt. Levesque came up … Continue reading →

Joe and I worked hard on the issuing of the clothes this morning. In the afternoon Al Jolson put on a show for us. He was really good. After the show we had to take a shortage on the company … Continue reading →

We received some more clothes today and I worked on them all day long.   Joe Watters helped and being as Wellman is going to town tomorrow he will help me all day again.  We played cards again as there … Continue reading →

We received a lot of clothes last night so now today we are issuing them out and what a job it is. We played cards in the evening until about 12 o’clock.

I had been on guard so I slept all morning. I go back on at 12:45 A.M. Tried to work on my knife a little but soon gave up. We went to the show tonight at 8:14.