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Show feel in order to best pr0tPrt do . . their selves as well as nmrhjtna vmi f -tnntarri www. mm It i -n iS r "" nf course, u irn per U m r, t Urn f what- "I f7(e55 I I , ,s . , "Pinion observation. fjcfaujia sona I ' Here ' s where do t he t mo a g out ba'Serf You can ood D , ad ; nere are oeginning to feel t or appreciation on the part - XL t . T f t , 0 our f a m Hie a I don' t or sweethearts are me an , ""y to appreciate position . ...... .... - e ou. ne J 1 nec haircuts 'bulldog' own had to There will be a slight delay for the impossioie 'Dec. 21 ... Remember all the boxes we were making in whse 20 ai ; . . . J 7 , . have - we protect ion, the lice, for our to take crabs, etc, are too thicklearned to I Today chances with. in Arabs the shoo to Alii' say 'Alii pant s , wrap around dotty, patched turbans away. akirta, at Hill Field, Well, we'rea busy job. uncrating them, and what condithe you tell Someday I'll tions we're working under,, But American ingenuity has no equal. Finally, and I had to post guard to nudge them out with guns and keep them and of our c amp, . . their wares t heout canteen I filled Except for at the boat, I haven't had a drink of water in Africa. In fact, some of the Americans haven't bath since they got here. 'Dec. 19, 1942... turned loose to use their heads a nd wa tch them get the job done. Dec. 24,., Last night we had our was steel have to sleep on are the cots moat uncomfortable bed since the Hindus invented the bed of nails, ...The of mud v floor , and by now , I' m cement is much that African than American cement. men are living in a foot in pup tents - three or four When I was down at a tent. bed, I heard a gruff voice - D ? bean authority.. wrong ideas, cause we're Don't get all happy, and can take it, and can harldy wait to put our 'two in the pot to 'Keep em flyin' a big job to handle, but it and the better we'll all quicker so often we get - we Every the quicker operate, the be home . . . shipments of supplies from Hill Field on special projects. 19, 1942... Yesterday I day, and had to go out again last night. J got to bed at 4;45 this morning, back at 9:00 a.m. and finished at 10;00 p.m... Col. Dec. worked all Bill set ' up our motto difficult will i Page 2 be done - 'The immedi- ear Dad , I need to tell you along these lines except that and I came in on the both wave and have been here initial there isn't boom ginning to for may 'Knowing what a news hound you and how you keep up to date on current happenings, I guess -- ...It'sall canned corn, are ican mud is the deepest, slickest, and best grade mud in the world M UD , a sub jec t on which I am be- we're it consisted - -- out of a tent 'Keep your muddy shoes out of the only clean water I have to sleep in... Afr- bits' -- hive personal contact with at fighting fronts through letters received from kin or friends.. But to the big majority who haven't, these excerpts from two tetters from officers previously stationed here, should be very interesting and revealing. Ed. to the squadron area last night, and the men were getting ready for men good combat conditions haven't slept on that spring since the steel tore her chamber been sleeping I've first night. con-harder fairly canned Field I inced in Africa first dinner Dinner of wierners, hard tack and coffee. Some workers and soldiers at Hill we on t he wonder ful to see these Yanks It's had a The te ly a - much this lets say that whatever history was ever since. us made, I guess it; had a hand in making take it from me, some of however, no was fun. I know one thing, it Dad, fear is something every man has his share of and to say differently we is to, lie. It didn't take me long to alter my concept ion of a soldier either. J used to think training, discipline a marked that pay and military bearing soldier - I now know -- when the cards are down, they off in guts and the side with the most guts is the side that is oing to win. g 'Dad, you are in a business that has direct bearing not only on the training but also the feelings in the hearts of the boys to be sent over here as replacements. can somehow If let I you know how how they should these boys feel and The HILL F I ELDER ib ui and even i i n 4. n a fjts w nnu mikm it ; f4ziv L n- i e t- pnone f- U f-- s . , realities; launary (over L nave J I J ousinesS soldiers M dh A III J mean the rank longing the money Spend jf electric Jq lid people who lae on pjvJ the foremost prayer ol 4 roads, of us over here is to be aJoted So back t o t he States, where f L f ana. where ifo Know now to live are oemg neia without awaiting our return. hear or read how A ' J . ! a ny d.i nL uift i o uo in a former 'white-colla- r cJijh(J We hatt people. can't fr nasningt on or man' 'been persuaded' to accept boiler factory. the mud a wori walkmili We for our mail have lived for weeks on sardij and prunes. I hope this cfoeu sound like kicking, Pop, for really is not meant that way; stj through all around us we see peopl of filth and poverty reeking begging for the chance to Jive when all while back home people compjl that there isn't Sunday afternoon enough gas lor buggy ride, makes one stop and wonder. 'Maybe youwill want to km what we would like to see dom Dad; well, here's brief a outiim Let the United States Army step with the United States GovetmtA and really go on a basis. Let's see confiscait ion rift hard-boile- d food ration it! left; let'sandsee taxes too; Jet and it hurts, till see an end to 'living as usual' usual' until this 'business is over; let's have a little M as tell6 in and a is touiher little oui h a t v ou are less ask. racket we hxrrlfr V ..i th it's you are to Dd. don't are kicking cause we're , Fiih and ou I've learned anything been in mm with yourselffili . well as others, the harder nnH t r ti this; iitl thii not. since!" 'No w"1 hard you have it the going is, there is someone is going through just a little hnw or how tout A t or puttinti tougher situationmore and keep a with little bit his mouth shut. He's the il t ie to.' As ever March I, H |
