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Show Ted Harris Writes To the Chronicle Washington, D. C, 13 Jan, 1945 Dear Franks: It has been quite a while since I saw you last summer. Not much has happened since then. I have just been stationed here at So'o-mons. So'o-mons. Maryland, an amphib training train-ing base, as an instructor in Radar etc. I am the only one left in the school now and I sort of have things in my own way (in ways). I went to the Smithsonian a few weeks ago and took a picture of the great Beckwithia Middle Cambrian Cam-brian Merostome. but didn't get around to sending it. I took a lew other pictures and some of them turned out fair. Did you get the Agfa Color Film that I sent a few weeks ago. (Yes and acknowledged it in the paper, pa-per, like a good little boy that I am.) How are you feeling now? (Just kicked a fly off a steen foot ceiling, ceil-ing, Ted. Can you?) I hope the weather and so forth isn't too bad now. (Light snow this week, but not bad. Not too cold.) I've sure enjjoyed reading the Chronicle - it's still the best newspaper news-paper in the world. (Ted, you give us ideas! Heretofore we've only claimed "the best between Lynn-dyl Lynn-dyl and Oasis." Where's our map?) Let me have the low-down on the berg. Yours, Ted. (Ted sent some color pictures in his letter. Thanks very much. A fan's a fan whezzer in Delta or in Wash. Snap Snap Snap. Golly, Gol-ly, winuvvem is a humginger!) P. S. Haven't tried the Agfa film yet Ted. hope to on some nice subject of pleasing color. Will let you know results. Mrs. Laverna Moody, of Hinckley Hinck-ley received word from her son, Cp'. Dwight Moody, that he is in ! the Mariannas. He went overseas by plane. He says it's hot there and swimming in the ocean is good , Dwight is in the Medical Corps of jthe Army Air Force. I Mrs. Moody's daughter, Pvt. Myr-lene Myr-lene Moody, who joined the Wacs last summer has recently been transferred to New York. She was sent there to do office work but nurses aides were needed so bad- ; ly she was placed in the Halloran Hospital on Staten Island. Her duty du-ty is to meet the boats as the wounded are brought in from the 'European theater of war. She has met two wounded Utah boys in her work, one from Ogden and one Richfield. Parents with boys in the Euro-' Euro-' pean theater have been getting word from their boys afler nearly a month silence. M-S Parley War-nick War-nick received word from their son, Alvin, who is in England, that his (work kept him up until 3 a.m. but that he was alright. Lt. Boyd Hilton, Hil-ton, who is with the 9th Air Force in France, said he was in the re-: re-: cent big air battle and his group ' shot down 83 German planes. He shot down one ME 109 German fighter plane and damaged anoth- er one. "It was every man for himself," him-self," expressed Boyd. He wrote on Christmas Day. Pvt. Grant Pratt writes his parents, M-S William B. Pratt, that he has been in the1 hospital hos-pital and has been moved from Luxemburg to 30 miles from Paris. M-S Clark Bishop finally received I word from their son, Carlos, who is in Germany. 1 Merchant Marine Raymond Finlinson Fin-linson left last week to go to California Cal-ifornia for further duty in the Mer- I chant marine. I Tracy Shields, S 1c, son of M-S Rom Shields came home on leave i last Saturday. He has been in the Pacific area. Sgt. Vance Abbott, USMC, arrived arriv-ed home Saturday on furlough. He had been in Saipan prior to coming home. He has served for two years in the SW Pacific area. Pvt. Naoharu Satake has been sent to Camp Blanding, Florida, for his basic training. Corp. Grant E. Roberts, formerly of Delta, is visiting his parents, M-S M-S Walter Roberts, after serving 26 months in the South Pacific. He saw action in Guadalcanal, Tarawa, Tara-wa, Saipan and Tinian. After a 30-day 30-day furlough he will report to San Diego for re-assignment. Phor. Mate Merrill Stewart was home two days this week. Merrill was on his way from Maryland to the West Coast. Lt. Tex Mosely writes his mother, Mrs. John Egan, that he has been transferred from P,aton Rouge, La., to Winficld, Kansas, where he expects ex-pects permanent assignment as an instructor. |