Pvt. Wm D. Johnson Jr # 34945847\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 May 23, 1944
\nB. Co, 226th trng. Bn.
\n69th Regt. IRTC
\nCamp Blanding Fla.
\n“B” Co.<\/p>\n
Monday Nite
\n9:45 P.M.<\/p>\n
Dearest Mom & Dad<\/p>\n
Just 10 min. till lights out but I want to write you all a note. I am fine but dont have time to do anything yet. May be we’ll have more time after we get started.<\/p>\n
Got your note Mom before I left McPherson and surely was glad to hear. This is tough training, but I’ll make it. I’m in a Message Center and will train as telegraph operator & intelligence. It is still infantry tho & I have to take all the infantry trg in addition to the schooling.<\/p>\n
Tell Macey & Rip my address when you write them. I haven’t had time to write them yet. Please tell Louise you heard from me & I’m fine. I may not get a chance to write her in a couple of days.<\/p>\n
I’m in a specially tough branch. We’ve got to be the telegraphers & cryptographers about 500 yrds behind the fighting but we’ve got to be hard fighters to cope with the infiltration tactics & parachutists of the infantry.<\/p>\n
Don’t worry about me, it is doing me good.<\/p>\n
You all write & don’t count letters with me.<\/p>\n
Love always
\nDave<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Pvt. Wm D. Johnson Jr # 34945847\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 May 23, 1944 B. Co, 226th trng. Bn. 69th Regt. IRTC Camp Blanding Fla. “B” Co. Monday Nite 9:45 P.M. Dearest Mom & Dad Just 10 min. till lights out but I want to write you all a note. I am fine but dont have time to do … Continue reading “May 23, 1944”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/adaendo.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/adaendo.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/adaendo.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adaendo.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adaendo.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/adaendo.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":209,"href":"https:\/\/adaendo.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21\/revisions\/209"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/adaendo.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adaendo.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adaendo.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}