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Show letters From Binflham Soldicr J. C. ILeiser, of Upper Bingham nas i received a letter from his .brother, I First Lioutenant Bruce iC. Lciser, 14th Field Artillery, which is now stationed sta-tioned . Bomewhere in France, The letter was dated August 2, and' reached reach-ed here August 24, It reads as fol-1 lows: '- ; "We have been on the front for some time now, and our regiment is having some pleasurable adventure and is gaining come honorable advancement ad-vancement "I myself have seen battles in the air, balloon observers jump for tbeir lives in parachutes, while their balloon bal-loon came down in flames, seen dead Germans and Americans, been shelled, shell-ed, and know the feeling inspired by the big ones going over your head and exploding a hundred yards or so away, and wondering where the next one would go. "Got in this a. m. at 4:30 after convoying con-voying a, bunch of ammunition trucks all night from a dump ! the' Boche planes were trying to ,bomb. Cannot say that I'm stuck on this night work all in the dark over strange French roads," congested with truck . trains, ambulance trains, artillery, cavalry and infantry. All trucks are like a box car to handle and take a ten acre field to tura around In. Jams occur and a wheel cannot be moved for hours. A truck breaks down or gets In the ditch and has to be towed out, causing weeping and walling and gnashing of teeth to all concerned. "We are all busy and I can see where in a short time there will be much fatigue. While we have been at it only a few weeks when I think of It in terms of months. I feel tired and have the dropsy, still the system of men can ad?rt itsolf to many strange conditions. I can go to sleep with the guns roaring end with one ear open to hear the mighty gas alarm. "Most of us sleep with our clothes on, of course, which I believe Is an Improvement on the more conventional convention-al habit ot""disrobing. 'When we arise we smooth out the wrinkles, take a wash as far as possible, and we are ready for breakfast or to more which ever the program may be, ' "Same day, 7 p. m. Started this epistle about noon. 'All t& quiet. They say our infantry gained about seven kilometers this a. m. early, That accounts ac-counts for the stillness of our guns, and means no doubt a nitve forward fo rus. Mere's hoping they tell me there are a goodly number of German Ger-man dead In the woods we' gained," The following letter was received a few days ago by H. N. Standish from j his grandson, Lawrence Moore, who Is in the navy yards at (Pensacola Florida; , . "Well here I anr in old Florida, where its pretty hot. J am in the ', navy yards and they are located I right on the beach. The Gulf is just l straight out from us so we always see a few ships, submarine chasers, etc. The air is always filled with seaplanes. sea-planes. They have some very large planes here. The largest are about 100 feet from one wing tip to the other, and carry about . nine men. They are equipped with two liberty motors and weigh about seven tens. Some 6t the smaller planes go up so high that they look like a speck ' It is a common slight to see them flying fly-ing above the clouds. "In the yards are all kinds of schools for the different branches of aeronautics so there Is quite a bit of training going on. If you were here and could , see these men training train-ing in gunnery and bomb dropping you would know that the Germans are sure going to catch hell when Uncle Sam gets his air fleet over therw "The town of Pensacola is a pretty nice llttlo town, and so far I like the, navy life well, because we get to see a lot of these towns we never would see otherwise, ' "Well, I will close for this time. Hoping to hear from you soon, Lawrence Law-rence Moore. U.: S. Naval Air Station, Pensacola, Fla." |