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David R. Elder letters, October-December 1945
1945-12-27 Les Glick to Dave Elder Page 1
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520 Natoma Street San Francisco, Calif. 27 Dec. [1945] Dear Dave, Just had the nice card from you and Mable, and in the same mail Helen's issue of Scuttlebutt. For this Mailbag section of the letter, I'm stationed at the Receiving Station on Treasure Island here in "sunny California." (For the past week it's been a touchy question whether the place would sink, or just be quietly flooded over!) As your news services have probably told you, we're also flooded with returning veterans all anxiously awaiting transportation to a separation center, so they can get that magical slip of paper demoting them to P.F.C (clean version - poor frightened civilian). In the intervals between worrying about when the Mrs. will get over here from Ireland, and trying to fix up this apartment so she will have a home to come to, I'm in charge of a fair sized force of sixty men who try to billet the several thousand dischargees on the Island until transportation becomes available. Although you naturally hear a lot of griping from these impatient guys, they are being taken care of fairly well in comparison
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520 Natoma Street San Francisco, Calif. 27 Dec. [1945] Dear Dave, Just had the nice card from you and Mable, and in the same mail Helen's issue of Scuttlebutt. For this Mailbag section of the letter, I'm stationed at the Receiving Station on Treasure Island here in "sunny California." (For the past week it's been a touchy question whether the place would sink, or just be quietly flooded over!) As your news services have probably told you, we're also flooded with returning veterans all anxiously awaiting transportation to a separation center, so they can get that magical slip of paper demoting them to P.F.C (clean version - poor frightened civilian). In the intervals between worrying about when the Mrs. will get over here from Ireland, and trying to fix up this apartment so she will have a home to come to, I'm in charge of a fair sized force of sixty men who try to billet the several thousand dischargees on the Island until transportation becomes available. Although you naturally hear a lot of griping from these impatient guys, they are being taken care of fairly well in comparison
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