Letter from "Pete" to his mother, 1945-01-27

"...Each morning now instead of Bedetti, the Master at Arms (MAA), waking us up in the morning by blowing reveille, the general quarters alarm wakes us up...Well, the other night I had a little accident. As I've told you before, I sleep up on the third sack up. There is a light out in the aisle with a shade on it--so I quite often bump my head on it when climbing up. I hit it just a little too hard and it cut a small gash in the forehead and made it bleed...."