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March 5, 1943 – Friday

I worked all day getting my requisitions finished & also doing some other small jobs. After I finished I washed out some clothes. I had some wine for supper to night and it was pretty good. The 3rd platoon built … Continue reading

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March 4, 1943 – Thursday

It has been raining all day today or should I say all morning as in the afternoon it quit and we went over to the airport to look at different planes so we wouldn’t be shooting at our own when … Continue reading

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March 3, 1943 – Wednesday

To day is salvage day so it will be a little different. The next three days I will know what I am going to do anyway. There was very little salvage today anyway. We got bawled out by the General … Continue reading

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March 2, 1943 – Tuesday

I get tired of saying the same thing over and over but here in the supply room there is just not much to tell. We keep busy most of the time doing odd jobs such as typing out forms or … Continue reading

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March 1, 1943 – Monday

Today is the first day of the month and there was little to do. I had to turn in a few bayonets to the BN supply and outside of that I did nothing. Boy this laying around is killing me. … Continue reading

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Feb 28, 1943 – Sunday

I slept till 8:30am this morning and probably would have slept longer but was hungry and I wanted something to eat. I wrote letters till after dinner and wrote until 9:00pm. I read a little and then went to bed.

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Feb 27, 1943 – Saturday

We had to get the supply room cleaned up for an inspection in the afternoon. I went to the show in town. We run a show truck in town every Saturday and Sunday. The show that was playing was “Algiers”. … Continue reading

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Feb 26, 1943 – Friday

Boy the days are going by fast now and I hope they get the Germans bottled up soon. Most of our division has went up to Tunisia but I guess there is no need for us Engineers right now. We … Continue reading

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Feb 25, 1943 – Thursday

I had to turn in my salvage today so that kept me busy most of the morning and part of the afternoon. I had a little spare time so I did my laundry and then wrote a letter home. After … Continue reading

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Feb 24, 1943 – Wednesday

Today is salvage day so that’s about all I had to do was take in salvage. We had another mail call and I received some more mail and a package from my mother. I had all of the stationary that … Continue reading

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