Byrnes, Ben
Found in 142 Collections and/or Records:
Letter from "Pete" to his mother, 1945-01-15
"I had the four to six messenger watch this afternoon which leaves me with the twelve to four tonight. Seems like those mid (12-4) watches sure roll around swiftly...."
Letter from "Pete" to his mother, 1945-01-17
"...I just took a cold but fresh water shower and I feel quite refreshing [sic] now. They don't turn on any spicket except the cold one, when we do have a fresh water shower on, because if they made it nice and warm we'd stay under it longer and waste a lot of water...."
Letter from "Pete" to his mother, 1945-01-16
"...I visited ship's service store again tonight and bought my usual rations of sweets. That is a plenty [---]. Three bars of candy, can of peanuts and some mints...I talked to Earl the Marine again tonight. He's a pretty swell, nice boy. He doesn't smoke or drink, which means a lot or at least shows thast he has a very high resistance against these temptations...."
Letter from "Pete" to his mother, 1945-01-20
"...How did you like my every day account of my activities as far as I could say without it being censored or rather cut out by the censors? The reason that I put several letters in one envelope was to conserve my Air Mail stamps. It was a good idea, wasn't it?...Guess you've been reading in the papers where three servicemen7 were put off an Army airplane to make way or space for Col. Roosevelt's dog...."
Letter from "Pete" to his mother, 1945-01-20
"...Today while handling a cable some wires were ragged on it and as it passed through my hands rather fast it caught my right index finger and third finger also my thumb and ripped the skin off of them. They are quite sore now...confidentially, I've been overseas since September 7th '44. If anyone would ask me I'd probably answer them just like this, 'Too d--- long'...."
Letter from "Pete" to his mother, 1945-01-21
"...The first church service of any form except my own personal daily one, since my 'boat leave'. The other Sunday when I told you that I had signed up to go--conditions didn't make it possible for us to attend. This Catholic chaplain seemed to say a good many things in Latini...Your letters to me are not censored only mine to you are...."
Letter from "Pete" to his mother, 1945-01-23
"...I guess that I told you that I received the total sum of forty-five letters while we were in port the 20th and 21st. From now on our mail will be received in stacks like that--maybe a month or so's mail waiting for us at one time...." [A section, measuring 1.0 x 6.0 cm, has been excised from the second page of the letter]
Letter from "Pete" to his mother, 1945-01-24
"...It was so nice of Aunt Gertie and Uncle Harry to bring you a basket of apples down. I feel as if I could eat almost half a bushel at the present. But I'll just have to settle for those that we get for breakfast--either an apple, orange, grapefruit, figs (California), or buns. This is going on my fifth month of overseas service--and my eighth month in the Navy...."
Letter from "Pete" to his mother, 1945-01-25
"Life aboard ship is practically the same except that quite a bit of my time is taken up in standing guard and security watches...My weight has increased considerably since I came aboard ship. I gained most of it while I was on 'mess cooking' those two months...." [A small section of page 1 has been excised, possibly by censor]
Letter from "Pete" to his mother, 1945-01-26
"The climate out here is still the same, 'tropical', and if I was to say anything concerning it I'd say that the days are a little warmer. The nights however, remain cool and 'clear-cut'...."
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