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Last Letters from the States

April 1942 – September 1942

April 1942.  Rode in a truck convoy to Ft. Lewis, Washington and now am a member of a field artillery battalion armed with 155mm howitzers.  I trained for several weeks at an artillery range in the vicinity of Yakima, Washington.  At Ft. Lewis, I met a lady at a USO dance who would from this time until her death in 1997, regularly write to me all through the war years and the years following.  Her name was Mattie Scott, a name I will never forget.

-Harold Moss
  • April 1942

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    • 3 May
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    • 18 May
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    • 10 June
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    • 30 June
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    • 2 July
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Uniformed Harold Grove Moss WWII Picture - 1942
Uniformed Harold Grove Moss WWII Picture – 1942
Charlotte Moss and Harold, 1942
Charlotte Moss and Harold, 1942

Army Postcard - 1942
Army Postcard – 1942
Harold in Escondido, California in 1942.
Harold in Escondido, California in 1942.

Pups tents at Ft. Lewis (Yakima), Washington - 1942
Pups tents at Ft. Lewis (Yakima), Washington – 1942

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