ENLSTED MEN BARRACKS
18 DAYS FOR BEFORE ARRIVING
AT CAMP SHANKS, NEW YORK,
TO PRAPARE TO LEAVE FOR
NORTHERN IRELAND, OCT. 7th.
September 14, 1943
Dear Mother,
Just returned from the P.X. I had to buy some writing paper as my note to you sometimes turn out to be quite long letters. As I was returning, I noticed the clouds were lifting and a full moon overhead. It is cool but not as cold as it has been. Remember a few nights back when I wrote to you how the moon with it out and the sky clear just like a night back in Maine when one could look for a frost. Well, we got that frost the next morning. The roofs were white and the southern boys said it was too damn cold for this time of year. The next thing they expect is snow. ha ha.
I never got one letter all day, but I'll make up for that to-morrow night. May have a half a dozen.
To-morrow I go out to fire the bazooka. It's bad if you don't watch your step. You wear a gas mask and the gun sends flames for 15 or 20 feet to the rear. Then to these are fumes that come from it that are poison. Of 125 boys I was one of 16 picked to fire, also Dan from Massachusetts. Some of the rest didn't like it. One even said, "Let me take your place."
To-morrow night I go on guard. I was lucky I didn't get it the last time our battery pulled guard.
Gee, I need to write Frank Hall a letter if and when I can find the time. Do you ever see them? If you do please mention I wrote about them.
I read in the paper a fellow by the name of Hill from Fort Hill Road, Gorham, Maine, was home on furlough but had returned to Camp McCoy, Wisconsin. I didn't even know him. Ask Eugene if he does.
Will say good night as I have no news to-night. Gee, I miss you all. Wish I could talk with Dad.
Love
Charles
^^Sep 13 German counter attack at Salerno
^^Sep 13 The Municipal Theatre of Corfu is destroyed during an aerial bombardment by Luftwaffe. The Municipal Theatre of Corfu was the main theatre and opera house in Corfu, Greece, from 1902 to 1943. During its 41-year history it was one of the premier theatres and opera houses in Greece, and as the first theatre in Southeastern Europe, it contributed to the Arts and to the history of the Balkans and of Europe.
The Municipal Theatre of Corfu is destroyed during an aerial bombardment by Luftwaffe
Fighting Tools 1943 WW2 Cartoon
US Army Animated Training Film Animation
