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John N. Calhoun family letters, August 1941-February 1946

1941-08-28 Page 2

pavement and went for about 4 miles to a junction.  Here we found another convoy were already moving and so we had to wait for about an hour and it got dark.  After we got on the road, we were behind another convoy (the 109th Engineers) and they moved very, very slowly for about a mile and then stopped entirely.  Then after about an hour they rolled on slowly and finally came to their [illegible] and turned off.  Then we moved much more rapidly for several miles until we arrived at our [illegible] area and pulled in.  You know, I don't recall of us ever seeing any of the waste land on our trips to NO and Baton Rouge so you haven't any idea of how it looks.  Just a great-great big slightly rolling field with lots of burned stumps sticking up all over it.  The stumps are about thee feet high.  There are a few trees.  We drove around in the dark trying to find a place that would be shady the next day.  The best we could do was four trees.  So we stopped and unloaded the necessary equipment and our cots.  The mail came in just be-fore we left the old camps and there wasn't time enough to sort it so Sgt. Rice and Dan started sorting the mail on a table in the light from the car.  So I got two letters from

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pavement and went for about 4 miles to a junction. Here we found another convoy were already moving and so we had to wait for about an hour and it got dark. After we got on the road, we were behind another convoy (the 109th Engineers) and they moved very, very slowly for about a mile and then stopped entirely. Then after about an hour they rolled on slowly and finally came to their [illegible] and turned off. Then we moved much more rapidly for several miles until we arrived at our [illegible] area and pulled in. You know, I don't recall of us ever seeing any of the waste land on our trips to NO and Baton Rouge so you haven't any idea of how it looks. Just a great-great big slightly rolling field with lots of burned stumps sticking up all over it. The stumps are about thee feet high. There are a few trees. We drove around in the dark trying to find a place that would be shady the next day. The best we could do was four trees. So we stopped and unloaded the necessary equipment and our cots. The mail came in just be-fore we left the old camps and there wasn't time enough to sort it so Sgt. Rice and Dan started sorting the mail on a table in the light from the car. So I got two letters from