Show round Mound o The Wor ld ldA M MANTI ANT A 1 I All News es e's Welcome I Nov NO 23 23 1944 1944 Young 1944 Young Donald Donald Allred son of Mr an and Mrs 1 Pratt I Allred had a nice slice turkey dinner dinne in Iii Iceland He rte reports if it wind wind I and sleet were added Icela Iceland d would be named right He lie sa saw saw I j big big glaciers ice bergs et etc eta real really ly beautiful During stop off stoP oft I there soldiers lived li In qu quaint i t 1 I I little huts or houses that look like I a bottle cut in half haIr They aie ai are I j I warm and comfortable There is Is s not a tree on the place I I Boy Ive I've seen lots and had alot a alot alot lot of experiences I wouldn't tra trade e j for the worl world I By the way Mom would y you you u ask Mrs Moffitt for Clairs Clair's address address addre s so I can can see him Maybe Mabe the t tWo vo Wo Woof of us can win this war for them Nov No 28 1944 Donald had arrived In Africa He wrote Boy Da Dad I wish you could be here Im I'm writing this letter by br I candle for we are ar are staying in tents tonight Africa is just like you read it is You see the old oM Arab in iii his gown and turbin riding ona on on ona a donkey and his wife plodding j i along behind The homes ar are flat roofed mud mud like like houses close I together with a large wall around I Ithem them and inside inside the wall they I have ha all their asses asses c chickens ickens V pigs etc Then n just outside there i Isa is isa s sa a large mansion also with a wall around where where the ruler of the tribe lives Then all aroun around a aie are large fields that his tribe works ks fig rIg trees everything These Iu rulers rul rulers rul- rul ers have have predilection over peoples lives and a women here is is' just a work horse Our camp has one of those walls with these big husky Y native guards that walk around the thc wall They have hav their b big g black cloaks on and andr and do a goose step around around it it r i J Pi n. n Army A r r Crops son of Mr an and Mrs Wm Win H. H Peterson Is home until next Sunday Time is spent hunting ducks mostly the other day he got 10 Balance of time Is 19 spent enjoying Mothers cooking Preston is an instructor in gliders at Maxton Maxton Maxton Max- Max ton Field Field North Carolina r The John Shands are beaming from ear to ear now days Because son Capt Cant Jack is coming home bome I very soon Jack has been in Englan England England Eng Eng- lan land and over Europe for sonic somA 15 months I yI y I Grandpa Andrew Miller Is sure i strutting his stuff at the men men- I I I j 1 I I I I I j I tion of fighter pilot grandson Earl Miller Last Sunday Sundar Earl came cameI from Luke Field Arizona to spend 32 minutes in our Temple City dashing around all he could coul trying to to take everything c In during his few minutes here Earl hadn't nt seen his kid sisters for IS 18 months and they hadn't seen him for the same same same-it it was sure a happy reunion June and Jean 14 14 tho the thoI twin no one seems to know which Is which were tickled to death and Earl coul couldn't nt g set get t over how much they h have ve grown He was wasi i pleased with F. 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A project and said his skits sItUs were e in g good od condi condi- lIon tion ion I v v I I Chief Petty Officer Rex Carlson son son of of Mr and jirs Mrs Irs Wilford Carlson CarlI Carlson Carl- Carl I son son here in Manti Monti on a 30 day 30 a r 1 leave leave Is really a veteran of the Navy a y He has been in it for nine nano I years At the first of the war he heI I I J was In the area on a aI I fleet tugboat a s small nall craft used i j I for tor or convoying etc After Arter 18 IS months there he was transferred I to the Pacific an and to a transport t I primarily designed for assault o on n islands invasions He Is i in n charge of the radio gang and andI I the bIle maintenance of the radios an and andI d I radar equipment and was In the Invasions of the Marshals the Mar Ma r lannas the an and the Phili Rex was hi In the Pacific I 13 months He expects to sta stay y in to the Navy after atter the war says say s his work Is very Interesting an and d he lip likes to go places an and se see sec e things v Captain Kenneth Peterson son I of Mr 11 and Mrs 1 J. J C. C P Peterson terson ale ate Thanksgiving dinner with his mothers mother's cousin in Honolulu Wife and family are In Mt H. Pleasant I v gj T-j T I B I Fireman 1st class U. U S. S Navy Natty Gail Braithwaite was home last week for 5 days Gail Gall recently finished a 17 week course In to elec electricity elge- elge at the electrical college St. St Louis Mo 1 He now reports to Virginia VirCinia Vir Vir- ginia for further training v v y Ensign Gail GaU Voorhees U. U S. S Navy Mavy avy Amphibious Forces son of or Mr dud and nd Mrs Henry Voorhees was home on a 10 day leave Gail is isa isa isa a communications officer on the staff of a flotilla of L. L F. F T. T which are ships that lan land tanks etc He is at Norfolk Va trainIng training train In ing others in in this work lie He really looks like a Navy Officer |