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John William Graham letters, May-July 1942
1942-07-29 Page 1
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July 29, 1942 Wendover Utah Dear Dad & Mom: I got your letter mailed the 24th, this afternoon gosh I was glad to get it and the pictures were swell I thought they were fine of you both. There isn't much to do out here and a fellow really looks forward to mail call altho I hardly expected to get a letter here yet. Here is an exert from a letter in a home town paper one of the fellows in my tent got. This was written by a soldier who passed thru here "We travelled all day went thru Salt Lake City along route #40 and across the salt flats. We passed an army camp on the flats with not a tree in sight for shade and the thermometer was up about as high as it could go without bursting out the top." That was his description of Wendover Field. It isn't so bad because it is nice and cold nights. Last night I got to go swimming it was surely fine much better than I'd even been told it was. The pool was out in the middle of the prairie and just as clear as crystal you could stand in it up to your soldiers and count your twos. Just the right temperature, nice sand bottom
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July 29, 1942 Wendover Utah Dear Dad & Mom: I got your letter mailed the 24th, this afternoon gosh I was glad to get it and the pictures were swell I thought they were fine of you both. There isn't much to do out here and a fellow really looks forward to mail call altho I hardly expected to get a letter here yet. Here is an exert from a letter in a home town paper one of the fellows in my tent got. This was written by a soldier who passed thru here "We travelled all day went thru Salt Lake City along route #40 and across the salt flats. We passed an army camp on the flats with not a tree in sight for shade and the thermometer was up about as high as it could go without bursting out the top." That was his description of Wendover Field. It isn't so bad because it is nice and cold nights. Last night I got to go swimming it was surely fine much better than I'd even been told it was. The pool was out in the middle of the prairie and just as clear as crystal you could stand in it up to your soldiers and count your twos. Just the right temperature, nice sand bottom
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