Byrnes, Ben
Found in 142 Collections and/or Records:
Letter from J.O. Miller to his mother, 1918-07-18
Mailed from somewhere in France. "I am all O.K. over here...I would like to write lots of things but can't say very much. I miss my tobacco. We don't like this English and French tobacco...."
Letter from J.O. Miller to his mother, 1918-08-04
Written on Army and Navy Young Men's Christian Association 'With the Colors' letterhead. "...I am getting along fine and have not been sick. However, war is not a garden of roses. It's simply hell fropm start to finish...."
Letter from J.O. Miller to his mother, 1918-09-23
"I will write you a few lines again to let you know I am still living. I have been sick for a few days but am getting all OK again now...."
Letter from J.O. Miller to his mother, 1918-09-28
"...All the boys over here are fighting hard to win so they can come home...Are you going to send me a Xmas box? If you do send me candy...."
Letter from J.O. Miller to his sister, 1918-06-12
Written from Hemstead, New York. "...I am some place in New York in camp. Don't think I will be here long enough to get an answer...I sure am glad mamma came to see me but I could not get off to go any where. It was pretty bad. I know she came home sick...."
Letter from J.O. Miller to his sister, 1918-06-22
"...We are still here [Camp Mills] and can't say when we will leave...How is mamma...This is some place here. We are not far from New York City but can't get a pass to go over. It sure rains a lot here..."
Letter from J.O. Miller to his sister, 1918-06
Written on Army and Navy Young Men's Christian Association 'With the Colors' letterhead. "Please see if you can get this hand bag for me as they want to deliver it out to the house...we are looking to leave in a day or two...."
Letter from J.O. Miller to his sister, 1918-07-20
"Please look after this express for me. Also see if I have any more around there. This is the second card theyt have sent me lately...." Signed by censor.
Letter from "Pete" to his mother, 1944-12-31
"...Today was the last day of my 'mess cooking' on LST-713. Wolfe, the guy from New Jersey, had the duty while I went on liberty...I am enclosing an article that I cut out of the paper or rather magazine, a sailor wrote about his ship as a sequence to Lincoln's 'Gettysburg Address'; however, he calls it the 'Sperrysburg Address'....
Press cutting enclosed: "Dear Ed: The below was cooked up by two of the men in my ship...Amen. Ben Robertson, CEM."
Letter from "Pete" to his mother, 1945-01-02
"I've finally regaind the warmth back into the upper part of my body. I watched the movie topside sitting on the Conn with no shirt or skivvy on, so I got chilled clear to the bone by the breezy night air...Quite a few places are secured on the ship now so it makes it very inconvenient for us to have to go around when we want to go anyplace. Ships sure require a lot of time, money and care, painting and so forth. It doesn't take the deck paint very long to wear off...."
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- United States. Signal Corps. 1
- United War Work Campaign, Inc. -- 1910-1920. 1
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