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20 May 1945

 

Dear Folks:

Only time for a few short lines tonight but I know you want to hear.  It’s a little after supper now and at four o’clock attended a Protestant service.  The crowds get bigger each Sunday – probably these combat conditions account for some of it.  Getting a bunch of GI’s to sing without an organ, in tune, is something to hear.

Put in a pretty good day all in all, and feel a little tired tonight.

I guess I better tell you about our showers because I think it is a tribute to GI ingenuity. We have three gasoline drums sitting on (a) bank filled with water and the center drum has a heater in it.  Having hot water showers at a time like this is something.

Very little this time but not much to write about.

Love,

Harold Moss Signature

Categories: Bathing, Church, GI ingenuity, Military daily life

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Harold’s Whereabouts

Okinawa, Japan

Rank

<h4>T/Sgt. HG Moss 37086474</h4>

T/Sgt. HG Moss 37086474

Technical sergeant was the rank between staff sergeant and first sergeant. Technical Sergeant was renamed Sergeant First Class in 1948.

Description

1 handwritten page, front side only, to his parents in Minatare, Nebraska

Return Address

Hq. Btry 225 FA Bn
APO 235 San Francisco, California

Censor Stamp

No envelope. No censor stamp.

Postage

No envelope

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