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The Bulletin, Mount Joy, Lancaster County, Pa., Thursday Afternoon, December 14, 1944
Eshleman APO San Francisco, Calif.
Somewhere in Germany
25 Nov. 1944
Editor: Mount Joy Bulletin
Dear Sir:
I have been receiving the Bulletin
regular for a few years and enjoy
reading of the happenings back
home.
We sure are grateful to you and
the remembrance committee for the
fine work you are doing.
And also to the people of Mt. Joy
we thank them for the blood they
have donated and for filling their
War Bond Quota, some day soon,
Dear Mur. Schroll: I have been it will pay dividends.
ceiving the Bulletin regularly for Please donate this gift of two
the past year, and have enjoyed it a dollars to the American Red Cross,
lot. It keeps a fellow up with the for they are also doing a very good
local news in general. I notice there job.
is nearly an entire page devoted to, My address remains the same.
the boys in the service. I was won-| S/Sgt. Q. R. Williams
dering if you woull be kind enough ary
to publish this letter for me and a Germany, November 29, 1944
lot of boys in the service who feel pgp jp
the same as I do. i
NEW
about those
IN THE SERVICE
Just a few lines to let you know
Today I received your paper of that J am very grateful to the Mt.
Sept. 14th, so you can see it takes Joy Bulletin for sending me the
quite a while for any news to reach paper from my home town, and to
us, and often it is an old story to/let me know what is happening a-
the folks back home while it is still round home.
fresh to us. So. I will cut cut and] I cannot write very much about
return to you the article I am re- what I am doing or where I am as
ferring to refresh your memory. Jit would only be censored. I will
The headlines this week were, say this, Since I came back from
Borough Council Makes Plans For Panama, I have been in England,
V-Day. Just what is V-Day? As France, Belgium, Holland and now
we understand it, It is the day when Germany. While in France I was at
all fighting stops and all hostility Brest and stayed till the city was
ends. And it will certainly be a captured.
great day. The bands were playing The weather here is getting cold
and the crowds cheering when we and it looks like snow every day,
left, and we would sure like to hear but it just rains out.
it when ge get back. But don’t the, Thanking you again for the paper
people at home think it is still aeven if I do only get it once a
good ways off, and aren't they quite month, It's worth waiting for.
early for such plans. Sure the day Sincerely,
is coming without a doubt, but we Charles Pennell
still have many miles to go for it.
Acccrding to the news we get, the
Army is doing mighty good in'Kind Sirs:
Europe but we have heard nothing I have been getting the Mount Joy
of Germany's surrender, and after Bulletin and really appreciate it.
they are out we still have Japan.'It lets ne know what is cooking
|The people in the States seem to with my old friends and the other
(forget about them and think after interests of the home town. I have
Germany is defeated the war will just completed an armament course
But that is only the half at Lowry Field, Colo. and have just
| remember arrived at Tyndall Field, Fla. for
|correctly, the first half was pretty Gunnery School. Upon completing
[long. gunnery we will receive a corporals
On the back page of your paper rating, wings and a delay enroute.
was a picture of some of our wound- So I am anxious to finish school and
heading of the come back home and see old friends
Tyndall Field, Florida
be over.
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iway mark, and if you
ed men, and the
know it is the only thing that saved! Allow me to take this opportunity
their lives. But I hope you and thejto thank you, the members of the
rest of the people back there realize Community Remembrance Commit-
It tee, and the residents of Mount Joy
is only given after a wound, and for’ the generous Christmas gifts I
nearly always a major wound, such received you. It is indeed
shrapnel wound gratifying to know that you are
why plasma is given to a man.
from
as an arm, leg, or
the size of your fist.
people at home think, that it wouldjwe would like so very much to be
be better to make plans of how 10in your presence and that our small
stop the need for blood, waste time efforts appreciated
thinking of what music the band The choice of gifts is excellent and
will play marching down Main St. I, for think the
If they can figure on how to stop members are to be congratulated.
are so greatly
one,
save the time on plans for V-Day of all hostilities seem so far off, 1|
I will be satisfied if there isn’t any get more anxious to keep in con-
celebration, and I think millions of tact with happenings in and around |
others feel the same way. Mount Joy and more anxious than |
All we read in any paper is post- words can describe to return there.
war plans, V-Day plans, and mus-'May the day be soon here when we
tering out plans, there is nothing can all do that at will.
said of a shortening the war plans.! Please note my change in APO to
There will be years and years after 558 I haven't received a Bulletin in
the war for all kinds of plans. So more than 9 weeks and I miss them |
why don’t the people snap out of it, very much. Perhaps the use of my |
address will insure a |
end this thing first and then make correct
all the plans you like speedier delivery of my main source |
I am not crabbing or complaining. of Mt. Joy news.
If ¥ had it to do over again I would Thank you again fcr the gifts and
I am just try- the very best of Xmas Days to all |
do it the same way.
ing to remind the people that “Nero of you.
Fiddled While Rome Burned.” Earl F. Kochenour Major AC
Pfc. Clay Reisinger, USMC meen
Thursday, Dec. 7th, 1944, Cuddihy
Somewhere in England Field, Texas. Dear Mr. Schroll:
Dear Mr. Schroll: It’s been quite some time since I
I received my gift from the Re- have written you and really, I'm
membrance Committee today, Dec.'ashamed of myself. I wish to thank
4. Thanks very much, it’s the first you for the paper, and the Remem-
two dollar bill I have seen since Ibrance Committee, for the Xmas
have left the States in July. It sure gift. It surely was appreciated. I've
is good to see some American mon- been receiving the paper regularly
yet, Am hoping 1 get it soon.
ey again, Here in England twosince I've been a member of the
dollars is ten shillings. Armed Forces, and surely look for-
I haven't received the Bulletin as ward to receiving it at mail-call. I
first read the “News of the Boys in
It rains here in England nearly the Service.” then the “Owl Laffs”.
day. Now it is windy and I've visited Lt. “Joe Moore sev-
We are getting our packages eral times, and we always wind up
for Christmas from home, but we talking about the “old home town.”
never get much anymore. It I guess quite a few of the nimrods
takes over a month for cur Air-Mail have their buck by now. I've been
We look for trying to obtain a rifle and some
mail all the time. shells, as the season is also open
Thanks again for remembering me here. As yau know I'm attached
this Christmas. Looking forward to'to a Pre-Operational Unit, consist
coming heme when the war is: won ing of SBD’s (scout bombers). My
Good luck to all and a duties checking,
maintaining the radio gear, in the
Sgt. Ernest L. Herr planes. I"ve had quite a few “hops”
and some “flying time,” and many
every
rainy.
mail
letters to arrive here.
over here. consist of
Merry Xmas.
The Ediior thanks these service thrills.
men for the Christmas Greetings re- country hop, sometime ago, to Fort
ceived this week: Cpl. Owen W.'Worth, Texas, and ran into a heavy
picture was “They Need Yourjand good old Mount Joy.
Blocd.” They certainly did need Pvt. Robert Bergman
blood plasma. That is one of the emer |
greatest things of this war. I have 8th AF Station, England
seen it given to a lot of men and Dear Mr. Editor: !
So don’t the|thinking about us at the time when |
Committee |
and
Four cf us were on a cross X
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| |Smith, India; Benj. H. Stahl Sr., SK fog, and for awhile I had the feeling
First Class, Overseas; Cpl. Clair D.
I “shoulda stayed in bed”. When
we finally arrived at Fort Worth we
{had but 7 gallons of gas left, so you
know what I mean by thrills. We
have a bowling league on the base,
and while we probably couldn’t be
called good, we do manage to have
a lot of fun, and after all, that’s
what really We've had
ccld rainy weather for almost a
week, and on Saturday a flock of |
‘ducks landed on one cof the run-|
ways. I've never seen so many
jducks and geese, as I've seen in
Texas, but still, I'd rather roam the
hills of good old Pa. with a gocd!
dog, and a gun.
lone in that desire, as almost all the |
| boys are looking forward to the |
| same thing. One thing I miss here |
{in Texas is snow. Now I know |
you'll probably say I can have it, I!
felt that way too, but this will be
my second Xmas in the Navy, and
it would seem more like Xmas if I
could only see some. Last year, at
Xmas, the people were walking a-
reund town, without coats. Imagine
doing that in Mt. Joy.
Well, I see it's almost time to go
to choir practice, so I'll bring this
to a close, again I want to thank
both you and the Remembrance for
your kindness and consideration.
James R. Leib, ARM 3/c
matters.
I know I'm not a-
Mr. Schroll: Here's an article
that appeared in the “Bainbridge
Md. Mainsheet” our center paper |
that the people of Mount Joy can
be proud of. You don't often hear
of people doing these little favors
for the servicemen.
I think it would be a good item
to print in the “Bulletin” to show
people why we are all proud of Mt.
| Joy and its people.
i You can't imagine how proud you
feel to see articles like this, espec-
ially when you know him person- |
ally, George H. Brown S 2-c.
| Bainbridge Salutes
“In the little town of Mount Joy,
Pa., there's a fellow by the name of
Tyndall wha operates a drug store
thue. For the past two years, or
perhaps longer, he has been passing
“cokes” and “cigs” across the coun-
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refuses to accept any medium of
exchange.
From reliable sources comes the
story of a convoy which stopped
in one day and ordered up cokes for
the entire crew of 35 men. When
money was refused, the captain in
charge jokingly replied, “Weil, well,
we'll lhave to stop here on the way
back tonight.” But Tyndall wasn't
to be kidded; he waited long past
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