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John N. Calhoun family letters, August 1941-February 1946
1941-09-15 Page 1
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H&S Co, 136th Med Regt In bivouac, 4 1/2 mi SW Oakdale APO 34, Camp Claiborne, La Monday, Sept 15, 1941-4: 00PM My dearest Dorothea: Still raining and still at the same place. So long as it rains, I am glad we don't have to move. I am enclosing 2 letters from Mother which you can read and keep with mine. It ought to be quite a large amount of literature by this time. I surely miss you and will be very glad to get home in the near future to see you and the kids. I wrote Bill to expect me the fore-part of October, also. You will note that Mother paid the last half of the taxes on the Bham house, which helps out. Some of our companies have been ordered to move and were out on the road. Then for some reason unknown to us (probably a truck stuck or bridge broken down) they can't proceed. And then it just poured down on them. But it is better in a truck than out in the open. We have been warned against parachute troops. So far we haven't seen any. Perhaps we are either too far back from the front lines or not far enough. They either went in the rear of the fighting troops or else in the
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H&S Co, 136th Med Regt In bivouac, 4 1/2 mi SW Oakdale APO 34, Camp Claiborne, La Monday, Sept 15, 1941-4: 00PM My dearest Dorothea: Still raining and still at the same place. So long as it rains, I am glad we don't have to move. I am enclosing 2 letters from Mother which you can read and keep with mine. It ought to be quite a large amount of literature by this time. I surely miss you and will be very glad to get home in the near future to see you and the kids. I wrote Bill to expect me the fore-part of October, also. You will note that Mother paid the last half of the taxes on the Bham house, which helps out. Some of our companies have been ordered to move and were out on the road. Then for some reason unknown to us (probably a truck stuck or bridge broken down) they can't proceed. And then it just poured down on them. But it is better in a truck than out in the open. We have been warned against parachute troops. So far we haven't seen any. Perhaps we are either too far back from the front lines or not far enough. They either went in the rear of the fighting troops or else in the
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