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David R. Elder correspondence, June-July 1945
1945-07-23 Maj. Al E. Baldridge to Dave Elder Page 2
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and wounded men trying to get out I could see what some of their work was like When the artillery made sixty miles in a day & fired all night then began moving at daylight only to have men picked off by snipers their work didn't appear all roses either. When the wire crew of the Signal Corps came into the CP to get warm up near Aachen, when the rain never stopped & the temperature was about freezing - when they had lost all but the clothes they were wearing their work didn't look like a snap. When the messengers travelled for months - day & night - never a light, over strange roads, one wondered how they ever made it (many didn't, some hit mines - others German road blocks) When our ration trucks & gas trucks were destroyed by a bunch of SP guns one night - sixty miles back of Division C.P. one knew those boys work was hard. And when we were never completely without rations - at least for long - we had a mighty friendly feeling for those colored boys who drove day & night with those 2 1/2 ton trucks - hundreds of miles to the rear & back. When they slept, I'll never know. I mentioned the aid men. - It is one thing to be shot at & fight back. It is another to be shot at & have a job to do which
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and wounded men trying to get out I could see what some of their work was like When the artillery made sixty miles in a day & fired all night then began moving at daylight only to have men picked off by snipers their work didn't appear all roses either. When the wire crew of the Signal Corps came into the CP to get warm up near Aachen, when the rain never stopped & the temperature was about freezing - when they had lost all but the clothes they were wearing their work didn't look like a snap. When the messengers travelled for months - day & night - never a light, over strange roads, one wondered how they ever made it (many didn't, some hit mines - others German road blocks) When our ration trucks & gas trucks were destroyed by a bunch of SP guns one night - sixty miles back of Division C.P. one knew those boys work was hard. And when we were never completely without rations - at least for long - we had a mighty friendly feeling for those colored boys who drove day & night with those 2 1/2 ton trucks - hundreds of miles to the rear & back. When they slept, I'll never know. I mentioned the aid men. - It is one thing to be shot at & fight back. It is another to be shot at & have a job to do which
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