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24 October 1942

 

Dear Folks:

You are probably thinking I walked into a switch engine on a dark night by this volley of paper but there isn’t anything to do in the evenings.

Something I just thought of that I would appreciate very much—a subscription to Time and The Reader’s Digest.  Reading is the best way I know to spend leisure time.

Tomorrow is Sunday and I’m going to church there in a small Episcopal one in town.  Maybe a ball game too and I’m the guy that keeps the score, etc.  Last Sunday we got beat 15-0 but we just begun.

Two more letters today but none from you for three days.  Suppose they are somewhere enroute.

Well guess this will have to fill the bill this time—after all it was only 24 hours since I wrote you last.  Aloha—hate to go to bed—one guy in(the) tent snores and it sounds like a Brooklyn ball game.

Love,

Harold Moss Signature

Categories: Athletics, Church, Reader's Digest, Requests for items, Time magazine

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Harold’s Whereabouts

Hawaii

Photos

Air Mail envelope, 1942
Air Mail envelope, 1942

Rank

<h4>Pfc. HG Moss 37086474</h4>

Pfc. HG Moss 37086474

Private first class is the rank just above private. There was little difference between the these ranks. Most of the soldiers in WWII had the rank private or private first class.

Description

2 handwritten pages, front only, to his parents in Minatare, Nebraska. This letter still has the big marking “Opened By Army US Examiner No. 1111.

Return Address

Btry B 1st Bn, 225 FA
APO 961 San Francisco, California

Censor Stamp

Passed 1111

Postage

6 cent airmail stamp

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