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…
Category: Genealogy
Chet Letters – June 16, 1952
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,…
Chet Letters – June 11, 1952
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…
Chet Letters – May 28. 1952
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…
Chet Letters – May 5, 1952
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…
Chet Letters – April 4, 1952
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…
Chet Letters – March 21, 1952
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…
Chet Letters – January 27, 1952
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…
Chet Letters – November 22, 1951
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…
Chet Letters – September 3rd, 1948
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…