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Category Archives: 1943
August 11, 1943 – Wednesday
We laid around all morning and thought we may move but didn’t. Not much happened today. At night we moved over to St. Agata. They are fighting at Cape d’Orlando now. We went up to the front and shells were … Continue reading
Letter home – August 10, 1943
Dear Mother & Dad; Here we are still plugging along. I imagined by the time this lettered gets home this island will be in our hands. At least I hope so, then maybe we will get a rest. How is … Continue reading
August 10, 1943 – Tuesday
Boy these planes. Six of them were over this morning at chow time. You should have seen the guy’s scatter. Worked around the supply for a while and then read some paper. Might move on this afternoon. We didn’t move … Continue reading
August 9, 1943 – Monday
Well we were strafed again this morning. This is getting to be an everyday occurrence now. Their was 3-P51 planes right on his tale too. We laid around the rest of the day waiting to move up to our new … Continue reading
August 8, 1943 – Sunday
Here it is Sunday and you won’t tell the difference then any other day. We were going to move up to day but laid around and didn’t do much. They made a landing behind the enemy last night and have … Continue reading
Letter home – August 7, 1943
Dear Mother & Dad; Conditions on writing letters now are so good between sweating out artillery fire and airplanes you just can’t concentrate on what you are doing. (believe it or not a ME-109 just came over and you should … Continue reading
August 7, 1943 – Saturday
Everything is quiet this morning so not much is happening two of our men are missing from last night operation upon the battle line. We were strafed and bombed today and I’m telling you I made a line underneath the … Continue reading
10th Engineers embedded with the infantry
Chick talks more about Sicily and how the 10th Engineers were embedded with the Infantry. Filmed 2007 at the studios of WILL, University of Illinois as part of the “WWII Central Illinois Stories” series
Posted in 1943, In his words
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August 6, 1943 – Friday
We were awakened this morning by the battle has started and we are pushing forward steadily. We didn’t get very far only a couple or three miles. Not much artillery fire is going on. We were shelled a little last … Continue reading
Letter home – August 5, 1943
Dear Mother & Dad; I had better take time out and get a letter home because I know you have been worrying about me. We are getting along pretty good now. We have it pretty badly, we are bivouac near … Continue reading
