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- GLC#
- GLC09620.038-View header record
- Type
- Letters
- Date
- 27 June 1943
- Author/Creator
- Stone, Robert L., 1921-2009
- Title
- to Jacob Stone, Beatrice Stone, Don Stone, and Jim Stone
- Place Written
- Childress, Texas
- Pagination
- 4 p. : Height: 27.6 cm, Width: 19.3 cm
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- Transcript of document
- Primary time period
- Great Depression and World War II, 1929-1945
- Sub-Era
- World War II
Addressed to "Dad, Bee, Don, and Jim." Starts the letter with a brief about his location. Childress is a small "church-run," dry town where they can't buy beer. Open-Post means nothing, as there is nothing in town. Says it's flat, dusty, unbearably hot, and the food is not great. Their session has changed from twelve to eighteen weeks and they're trained as bombardiers and navigators. He has heard the work is difficult and he knows he won't have much time to write. He asks that everyone continues to write, as mail is "especially welcome," and it's very lonely.
He writes that they recieved their supplies, including things like a briefcase, a box of books, and a variety of gadgets. He asks that his father sends him photography film by sending it in an unmarked box as it is illegal.
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