My Dad's basic as well in February 1943. I posted some of his notes.
Posted on 03/01/2020 5:03:05 PM PST by Kathy in Alaska
Thanks, TMN78247, for helping honor a great soldier.
Thanks...I’m really glad he wrote down his “adventures” of WWII. And rereading and sharing is a good thing for me.
Evening, Kathy. Nice to read about our heroes of earlier wars.
My Dad's basic as well in February 1943. I posted some of his notes.
I usually start it every weekend, but I’ve been so busy I didn’t do it...I’ll do it next weekend. Well, I waited too long! DUH!! I will start it again tonight, and each night when I get home, BEFORE I come upstairs.
Wow! THAT is a lot of manuals! I don’t know how you got it all done in one day. It’ll make the vehicles even more valuable to have the tech manuals with them.
How funny that the new cat chose the other person over you. What’s he thinking! You would spoil him rotten. :)
Good evening, Mooch...he was certainly a hero. Glad you enjoyed his story.
Any snow for you? I shoveled a couple inches off the deck this morning and another 2” tonight and it’s still snowing, thankfully gently.
As cold as it’s been up there for a while now, I’m surprised it hadn’t conked out sooner. It’s a pain to have to think about it especially when you’re dog tired when you get home from work.
Those were a drop in the bucket. I don’t know where they’ll put more cases, once they get more, for the other manuals.
I don’t know how we knocked them all out either. LOL! The crate behind the one Hubby was working on had a LOT of manuals that were only a few pages so they were small .... meaning it took more to fill up that crate! That’s the crate I was helping with. The guy by that crate in the pic is who put them on the shelves after we logged them.
Sebastian is more interested in hanging out with Hubby’s cousin’s FEMALE cat than he is in being spoiled. LOL There’s food and water for him there so he’s fine. And if he wants to come over here to hunt squirrels and mice, he’s welcome to do it. We have way too many now since we’ve been keeping our cats inside.
We have too many cats already so I’m glad he’s staying next door most of the time.
OH MY GOODNESS!!!!!!! Look at all those manuals!! What a tedious job that must have been. Manuals upon manuals and trying to remember if you’d seen the same one before or not.
Glad that job is done for now. ON TO THE UNIFORMS!!
Yes, it was a bit tedious but it needed to be done. Overall it wasn’t too hard to remember if I’d logged one with a certain number before but I did have to check the list several times with some of them. With some, the numbers were so close. Just one digit difference, or it had an identical number only with a letter “P” at the end.
Not many duplicates and the few extras we have will be sold to collectors or another museum at some point down the road.
Yes, the uniforms next time! There’s a cool mixture of items in that crate. Some things modern and some things older, like three sets of leggings from WWI uniforms. They’re on top and I hope the uniforms they go with are somewhere in the crate. The guys bought several adolescent mannequins over the winter specifically for them. People were a lot smaller back in those days and WWI uniforms don’t fit on adult mannequins.
This is the WW2 barracks Museum at Ft. Leonard Wood. These are the exact buildings I lived in my first 2 weeks in the army in 1973. Very likely the same ones Kathy in Alaska's dad lived in, too. A number of years ago the Army realized that the Reception station complex a Fort Leonard Wood was the last surviving complex of livable WW2 Barracks still in existence in the Army system and they had the brains to preserve them from tear-down and make them a museum. Notice the row of toilets with NO walls between them, no privacy at all. It was that same way when I was there 47 years ago. It took me 5 days before I could do a "sit down". For real.
It is good. Bet it makes you smile, as you can hear his voice as you read the words. :)
MG Wood is the namesake of the Army post that our MP School is located upon.
Yours, TMN78247
" The heat in our barracks came from a coal fired heating plant in a downstairs boiler room. For any inspection of the facilities someone had to scrub down that boiler room. The coal dust was on everything and was very hard to remove.
And we thank you for your service to our country.
How's everyone doing this morning?
Winter has been mild. Just small snow flurries Saturday. Since I’m mending from an injured knee, I am very grateful I don’t have to navigate the sidewalks. (I definitely don’t belong in Alaska!)
Howdy, E.G.C. ((HUGZ))
How’d your outing go with Gizmo yesterday? Was it warm enough you had to share the lake with other folks?
I think I know where part of your sinus problem might be coming from...all the dusty manuals. LOL! Makes me want to sneeze just thinking about them.
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