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Helen Fox Angell letters to Bess Peebles Fox, April-September 1945

1945-08-12 Helen Angell to Bess Peebles Fox Page 3

are no flies or ants, no animals, men come every morning to tighten tent ropes & see that the tents are OK. If it rains they come & lace the corners & stake down the side. We sleep blithely on. We get good meals, & all we have to do is go eat them & wash our own mess kits (Like that picture at Llandudno)  The wash water is always hot, the latrine cleaned & sprinkled with lime. All in all, it is quite a life to be drawing $200 a month for. 
By the way, Joyce & Helen C. say that domestic R.C. now pays high salaries, higher than here, so I may be interesting for a while if we don't get to go to the Pacific for occupation or back here after leave. We'll see. 
To go back, I bought some sheet music I wanted in Paris, got my candy ration, had dinner with Herb, met some infantry officers & spent the evening with them & came

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are no flies or ants, no animals, men come every morning to tighten tent ropes & see that the tents are OK. If it rains they come & lace the corners & stake down the side. We sleep blithely on. We get good meals, & all we have to do is go eat them & wash our own mess kits (Like that picture at Llandudno) The wash water is always hot, the latrine cleaned & sprinkled with lime. All in all, it is quite a life to be drawing $200 a month for. By the way, Joyce & Helen C. say that domestic R.C. now pays high salaries, higher than here, so I may be interesting for a while if we don't get to go to the Pacific for occupation or back here after leave. We'll see. To go back, I bought some sheet music I wanted in Paris, got my candy ration, had dinner with Herb, met some infantry officers & spent the evening with them & came