Category Archives: Diary

We only have a short kike of 8 miles today and will start at 9:30am. Here we are and it is in a race track where we are camped. We arrived here before chow and will spend the rest of … Continue reading →

Well we only have 15 miles to do today but boy my feet are killing me. Last night I was so tired that I had a rock as big as my two fists right in the middle of my back … Continue reading →

Today is the start of the hike to Rabat. We will leave camp at 9:00am. We have our tents taken down and are just waiting for the time to start. It is now 6:30 PM and I am dead tired. … Continue reading →

It was raining again this morning but soon quit. We spent the rest of the day getting things ready to go on our march to Rabat. It is to be a long hike of 55 miles as I’m going to … Continue reading →

Today is Mrs. Fleshner’s birthday. I didn’t send her a card and I thought of her anyway. The fellows went out on a warmup hike to get ready for the hike to Rabat. we had to sort out ammunition today … Continue reading →

Well we had been here in Africa 3 weeks ago today. It was a beautiful day today. The sun has been shinning all day and it was war all day. We worked all day as usual, as one day is … Continue reading →

We got to sleep till about 8:30am this morning and after breakfast we went into Fedala to mass. The church we were in had the back end of it blown out and all that was left was the altar. It … Continue reading →

It is still raining a little now and then. We had a equipment inspection today to get us ready for the move to Rabat. If the rain still keeps up it will keep us in our tents today. Most of … Continue reading →

It started raining during the night and is still raining today.  In fact it kept us in our tents most of the day so we played a little cards to pass the time away.  We sat around the fire of … Continue reading →

Today is Thanksgiving but the only thing we have to be thankful for is that we’re still alive.  We thought we would get a lot to eat today but the breakfast was smaller than most of the other breakfasts. The … Continue reading →