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1943

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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Letter home – May 7, 1943

Dear Mother & Dad; I bet you have sure been sweating out a letter from me. Well right now you can’t expect too here too much from me. I am pretty busy and I have little time to write to … Continue reading

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May 7, 1943 – Friday

We unloaded the supply truck today and looked it over. We are in Reserve right now but should get the call to go up to the front at anytime now. We are back as a Battalion now so that will … Continue reading

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May 5, 1943 – Wednesday

Here it is 8:00am and we are getting ready to pull out. All the guns are all set and ready to go. we traveled until 12:30 tonight to get here. We saw all types of planes in the air today … Continue reading

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