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John William Graham letters, July-September 1942

1942-09-09 Page 1

Maggie Blackledge Rhetoric Fall 2014 Gilchrist-
Translation:                                                                                                                                                         Sept. 9, 1942

                                                                                                                                                                          Wendover Utah
Dear Dad + Mom
             Well we've changed schedules again and this one is tough It outlines what we do every hour of the day. I now get up at 2 a.m. and have breakfast then we sweep and [mop] shine shoes (this is known as the relaxation period We go to work at 4 a.m. and are on until noon, then we have 1 hour Calisthenics then we have some time to ourselves for our [next] meal sometime around four + we have to go to bed soon after. It reminds me of an old blind horse on a [horseflounder] around + around. At least I [hope we] settle down to one thing.
             Tonight is the camel cigarette show and if I get this letter written on time I am going. It takes me a long time to write [letters] I have to wrack my brain for something to write.
            We are having another water shortage so we can't take showers for a few days. It is rather aggravating to come in from work and not be able to clean up of coarse there is water for shaving but no baths.
             I have been [pulling inspections] on the [planes] today every 25 hours as well as 50, 100, 200, 300, 400 hr periods. It is quite a job going over all the [points]  where they might get [loosened up etc]. We had to [repaint] [some][illegible] today that someone else had fixed wrong and they were bent up badly and the gears which open and close them were stripped. They work now hope they continue to do so.
             We moved barracks today that's a hateful job, everyone is running around with clothes, [barrack]

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Maggie Blackledge Rhetoric Fall 2014 Gilchrist- Translation: Sept. 9, 1942 Wendover Utah Dear Dad + Mom Well we've changed schedules again and this one is tough It outlines what we do every hour of the day. I now get up at 2 a.m. and have breakfast then we sweep and [mop] shine shoes (this is known as the relaxation period We go to work at 4 a.m. and are on until noon, then we have 1 hour Calisthenics then we have some time to ourselves for our [next] meal sometime around four + we have to go to bed soon after. It reminds me of an old blind horse on a [horseflounder] around + around. At least I [hope we] settle down to one thing. Tonight is the camel cigarette show and if I get this letter written on time I am going. It takes me a long time to write [letters] I have to wrack my brain for something to write. We are having another water shortage so we can't take showers for a few days. It is rather aggravating to come in from work and not be able to clean up of coarse there is water for shaving but no baths. I have been [pulling inspections] on the [planes] today every 25 hours as well as 50, 100, 200, 300, 400 hr periods. It is quite a job going over all the [points] where they might get [loosened up etc]. We had to [repaint] [some][illegible] today that someone else had fixed wrong and they were bent up badly and the gears which open and close them were stripped. They work now hope they continue to do so. We moved barracks today that's a hateful job, everyone is running around with clothes, [barrack]