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John William Graham letters, October-December, 1942
1942-10-02 Page 1
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Oct. 2., 1942 Pueblo, Colorado Dear Dad & Mom: I am just getting up at 10 AM, worked last night till 2 A.M. as usual the schedule got all messed up. When I work today I dont know. We should have gone to work at 4 this morning but instead had to go at four yesterday afternoon. I guess the eight hour shifts are being discontinued and we will work either 12 or 24 hour shifts, however no one knows as yet. The more I see of this camp the better I like it our nice clean comfortable barracks and all. I find they have five hangars under construction instead of three like I first thought. One large one and four are just big enough for one plane with a large work shop built on as a [lean?] to, these small ones tho are 150 ft wide and 100 feet deep so they arent tiny. These old B. 24s do take up a lot of room on the ground. I didn't get any mail last night I suppose it will be a few days before I start getting it here at this [post?]. I didn't get that little pair of scissors yet but no doubt it will come soon. I look kind of like old Charlie [Waif?] or Bill Kerr. This just is certainly large it has huge quartermaster [defeats?], [ordinance?] buildings, [illegible] headquarters and other branches pertaining to the air branch, at Wendauer everything was jumbled together but here every department has its own buildings and place. As yet we havent been issued [foot?] lockers but expect and hope to get them soon, it is so much simpler to
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Oct. 2., 1942 Pueblo, Colorado Dear Dad & Mom: I am just getting up at 10 AM, worked last night till 2 A.M. as usual the schedule got all messed up. When I work today I dont know. We should have gone to work at 4 this morning but instead had to go at four yesterday afternoon. I guess the eight hour shifts are being discontinued and we will work either 12 or 24 hour shifts, however no one knows as yet. The more I see of this camp the better I like it our nice clean comfortable barracks and all. I find they have five hangars under construction instead of three like I first thought. One large one and four are just big enough for one plane with a large work shop built on as a [lean?] to, these small ones tho are 150 ft wide and 100 feet deep so they arent tiny. These old B. 24s do take up a lot of room on the ground. I didn't get any mail last night I suppose it will be a few days before I start getting it here at this [post?]. I didn't get that little pair of scissors yet but no doubt it will come soon. I look kind of like old Charlie [Waif?] or Bill Kerr. This just is certainly large it has huge quartermaster [defeats?], [ordinance?] buildings, [illegible] headquarters and other branches pertaining to the air branch, at Wendauer everything was jumbled together but here every department has its own buildings and place. As yet we havent been issued [foot?] lockers but expect and hope to get them soon, it is so much simpler to
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