Show Letter Box ox h This letter is from First s Vern A. A Beck with the Quartermaster Quarters Quartermaster Quarter Quarter- master Corp Fort Ord Calif Fort Ord Calif lJ Nov 22 1942 Mr Frank Beckwith Sr t Delta Utah My dear friend How are you by now It seems ages since I last was in that Interesting interesting inter inter- esting print shop shop muse that shop museum urn that that is your place of or business I miss very r much coming in to see you and I 1 listening to your nonsense and slicing of baloney I would like to F drop in some evening and see your youre our ourt t e latest color pictures and examine your our latest finds I have often thought of or what you told me to go to the Convention in San Francisco and L and meet strangers for the broadening broadening broad broad- ening of ones one's views and getting F their points of contacts So far ini in i my Army lif life I have met with one j exception all strangers At first I went to school and then to a colored regiment I was transferred to Ord last April and was connected with motor transportation transportation trans trans- went to school at Stocks Stockton Stock Stock- s i ton and almost went to Des DesMoines DesMoines Moines to teach the V But got out of it thank heaven by the skin of my teeth Say Boy What a lucky guy you were vere Those V WA WA- A- A ACs AC's at close range are far more dangerous than an 87 mm burst Still I think youre you're I spoofing me and really wanted to togo togo togo go to the V but the Colonel knocked your ears cars down and went be it it Ill I'll send senda a copy of this to your wife and tell I her you need watching I am now in charge of or a fleet of landing boats Come down and andI I will take you rou out In the bay and give you ou a dinner n a la In Army It will willbe willbe willbe be worth while Sincerely yours 1st Lt V. V A. A Beck Post Quartermaster Fort Ord Calif Vern Im I'm right glad to hear from you When the little job is over well we'll take a hike out In the country and Ill I'll find you ou something some some- thing thing thing-if if anything's left And asfor asfor as asfor for those Brigadier General General Gen Gen- eral told me hed he'd decorate decorate dec dec- orate the hero who could meet one and escape un You missed em by the film on your molars This one is from Oswald Louis Johnson c 1 U. U S. S N. N J. J S. S Farragut Idaho Farragut Idaho N Nov ov 23 1942 Dear Mr Beckwith I am enclosing a money order to I subscribe for the paper I have finished boot camp and have been temporarily assigned to the department For a while I had hopes of getting getting get get- ting leave to come home but I Iguess Iguess Iguess guess that is out A few leaves were granted to boys going to school Our training company is no more Each man now has his job Reali Really all Navy men have two jobs or duties First is his military duty as a member of or the nations nation's fighting fighting fight fight- ing forces Second each Navy man has a specialty I had a chat with Ralph Conk yesterday It is possible there are other boys from home training here but I have not seen them as yet Oswald Johnson |