Category: Genealogy

Pusan Betty & June, I’m here and all I can say is its no damn good for anything, you’ve got to see it to believe it. This mess is more senseless every day that I stay here and the g**k government is a itchiban(?) SOB same as that big Mo. mule in DC. The last…

USNS Aiken Victory Betty & June & Wendy Here we are halfway between Pusan and Sasebo so we will be in Korea in the morning. It is damn awfully hot around Sasebo, but I don’t know what its like in Pusan, never been there before. How are things back home? Catching many fish or what?…

Dear kids: What the hell is the idea of opening the season so earl this year, too many fish in the lakes or what? B????? is lucky not going to Korea with the First Division but then not all of them go in any outfit. Terry is getting off with seven months and that is…

Dear Cooleys, I’m still at Camp Drake but we are shipping in the morning for another school down at Camp ??? wherever that is. So far we don’t know what the school is but it is for two weeks and then we take another trip. I thought I would write and clear some things up…

San Francisco, California Betty & June & Winkey: Long time since I’ve written? Well I am getting a new address in a few days so I thought I would pass it on to you, but this will be short so I can write everyone else today. I talked to Bill over the weekend, Dick wanted…

Fort Ord, California Hi kids: I’ll tell you now not to write until you get a new address from me or somebody else. I am shipping out tomorrow morning with a short leave and then report to stoneman the 21st of April, I will don’t know if I am going home or not for a…

Fort Ord, California Hi Betty, Jr. & Wendy, Long time since I wrote but I am getting lazy just sitting around here waiting for orders. But today I fixed that up. I got mad they tried to give me orders for a leadership school on post here and it is just no damn good so…

Fort Ord, California Hi Sis: Well it is about time I wrote, don’t you think? Tomorrow is the start of our thirteenth (13) week of basic and it is getting to be royal hell on wheels. But after three more weeks that is all until we get to Korea, and that is where most of…

Fort Ord, California Dear Betty & Jr. Well today is Thanksgiving and we are getting no passes, but it is raining and cold so it doesn’t make much different. It has been raining for the last two weeks and damned cold, so I have another cold and don’t feel too good. We haven’t got any…

Betty: Hi, it is to hot for me here and I miss the fellows at home, so don’t send any of those pictures unless I say so. I am trying to talk them into letting me go home. If I can’t I’ll be home sometime anyway. If there is some place to stay, that is?…