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David R. Elder letters, October-December 1945
1945-11-25 T/Sgt. Charlie Thrapp to Dave Elder Page 1
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Replacement Depot #5, Chabua, India, Sunday Nov, 25, '45 Dear Dave, I have been receiving each edition of the "Scuttlebutt" regularly for quite some time now & am terribly ashamed of myself for not writing. It is a shame that I let the time get away from me & writing to you comes at the last minute, as I have started home. I am & always will be indebted to you & the kind ladies for toiling long hard hours, so that we fellows might enjoy the news from home. Among my travels of the Army, I have not yet seen any other community that has done the same for their boys. So I take great pride in "thanking you & all of the ladies that were so instrumental in seeing that we fellows heard about a lot of news of home, that otherwise we never would have known"! I do not think that we will be home for Xmas. Altho' we should be on our way. No doubt that may sound funny to you, but the situation is this: tomorrow we will fly to Karachi & the port of embarkation for good old U.S. It is there, we will lose a lot of time because it is an immense place, with thousands of troops waiting their turn to get on board the "ship." I don't have any idea how long we will
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Replacement Depot #5, Chabua, India, Sunday Nov, 25, '45 Dear Dave, I have been receiving each edition of the "Scuttlebutt" regularly for quite some time now & am terribly ashamed of myself for not writing. It is a shame that I let the time get away from me & writing to you comes at the last minute, as I have started home. I am & always will be indebted to you & the kind ladies for toiling long hard hours, so that we fellows might enjoy the news from home. Among my travels of the Army, I have not yet seen any other community that has done the same for their boys. So I take great pride in "thanking you & all of the ladies that were so instrumental in seeing that we fellows heard about a lot of news of home, that otherwise we never would have known"! I do not think that we will be home for Xmas. Altho' we should be on our way. No doubt that may sound funny to you, but the situation is this: tomorrow we will fly to Karachi & the port of embarkation for good old U.S. It is there, we will lose a lot of time because it is an immense place, with thousands of troops waiting their turn to get on board the "ship." I don't have any idea how long we will
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