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7 April 1944

 

Dear Folks:

The [missing] my opportunity to write you before [missing] him at bay for a while [missing] Good Friday and I attended a four o’clock service in a converted chapel.  It was a short service but I felt much better after attending.  You should see some of the places the chaplains have services and whenever we sing a particular hymn, my mind goes back to Greeley and my church days of long ago and sometimes I expect to get a little unity recalling them. I am busier in the [missing] than I have ever been before and I [missing] to slip by with a great rush.  Talked [missing] tried to but will not get to him tomorrow.  [missing] messages are in good shape now and I’m looking forward to the cookies and especially the [missing]

 I certainly do recall those Easter Sundays and would like to see your decoration job on the house and I hope it won’t be long before I can help pack and hide Steve’s basket.

Love,

Harold Moss Signature

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Harold’s Whereabouts

Hawaii

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 V-mail, front side only, to his parents in Minatare, Nebraska. When found, this V-mail had folded itself over and adhered itself to the other half.  In the process of steaming it apart, some of the words are unreadable.

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Hq. Btry 225 FA Bn
APO 958 San Francisco, California

Censor Stamp

Illegible

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Free

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