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1943

Jan 29, 1943 – Friday

Boy we had a mail call today and received a few letters. It was all old mail but mail is mail and I was tickled to death. I received some candy from mom and it looked like a million dollars. … Continue reading

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Jan 28, 1943 – Thursday

This is getting old stuff witting the same thing over and over again. But not much is happening to write about. We played cribbage again tonight and I lost some more. I now owe $14.60. I sure hope our luck … Continue reading

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Letter Home – January 27, 1943

Your Mother and Dad Well we finally won a ball game. We played another engineer outfit Sunday and won 5 to 4. I thought we were going to get beat though as we were behind 421 until the first of … Continue reading

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Jan 27, 1943 – Wednesday

Man are the mornings ever cold. Wow you just about freeze. Its so warm in your fart sack that you hate to get up. We didn’t have much to do to day. I took a gun over to the ordnance … Continue reading

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Jan 26, 1943 – Tuesday

It seems foolish to keep this diary but I will. It seems as though I never have anything to say. We get new equipment one day and the they take it away from us and send it up to the … Continue reading

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Jan 25, 1943 – Monday

Today was just another day. Not much happened. I took care of my salvage and typed out my certificate on it. Tonight I played a little horseshoe and tried to box a little. Boy my wind is sure short. I … Continue reading

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Jan 24, 1943 – Sunday

As usual I went to 9:30am mass this morning. They built a boxing ring right in front of our altar so we had to move the altar. I played horse shoes all morning and in the afternoon we played the … Continue reading

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Jan 23, 1943 – Saturday

Well I didn’t get my teeth fixed today. The dentist had some emergency cases so I will have to wait. We received some salvage, so I spent all day looking up the fellows it belongs to and tying it in … Continue reading

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Jan 22, 1943 – Friday

I was to get my teeth fixed today but the dentist had to go to Rabat so now I will have to go tomorrow. Today is salvage day so all I had to do was just take a can of … Continue reading

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President Roosevelt reviews the troops

On January 21, 1943, the 3rd Division was present at the making of world history. On this day President Franklin D. Roosevelt reviewed troops of the 3rd Infantry and 2nd Armored Divisions on the main highway leading north from Sale. … Continue reading

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