Category Archives: Diary

Worked like a sun-of-a-gun all day today. Wrote a couple of letters and went to bed.

Little work to do. Went to 11 am mass. Wrote a few letters and laid around. Read a while and went to bed. Good night.

Move, move, move, that’s all we do. I’ll be glad when we make this invasion and get this war over with. Set up the supply and then went to take a bath. They had a show for us tonight.

About the same as yesterday. Went to see Vince in the hospital. He is going home. God he is in bad shape. Back broke & jaw broke. Glad he is going home and I would like to be going too, … Continue reading →

Worked all day on reports and other jobs. Nothing to do in the evenings and I don’t feel like writing letters.

Well, here we are back down at Naples. Same old bivouac we were in before we took off for Anzio. Wonder where we will go now. Set up the supply and wrote a letter home to Mother and Dad.

We loaded the trucks today and will leave tonight about 12 o’clock. Played cards and read all day.

Not much to do today. We have caught up on as much work as we can. They gave us passes to Rome to see Irving Berlin’s Musical show, “This is the Army”. It was very good and I enjoyed it … Continue reading →

Today is Dad’s day, so I had better write him a letter. Went to mass, and all of my prayers were for dad. I would surely like to be home with him. Played a little cards and wrote a few … Continue reading →

The same old thing turn in major Items report, boy will this ever cease. We worked hard all day, and are going to move again in a few days. We are changing to the New T/O today so now I … Continue reading →