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Carroll Steinbeck letters to parents, September - October, 1944

Carroll Steinbeck to Alfred and Vira Steinbeck Page 2

was even funnier. We had classes in the afternoon and a night problem on patrolling. Wed. morning we had classes and in the afternoon we laid mine fields and learned how to find them and take them up. We also had a little on booby traps. Last night we had fun with one of them for another kid and I rigged one up in the Sgts tent. We had a big fire cracker on it but it made plenty of noise. Believe me, when he crawled into his tent and it went off, he really let out a yell. He still doesn't know where it came from. Some of us walked to a creek and took a bath in the evening. Went to bed fairly early. This morning we ran another problem with the tanks but did not use ammo. This afternoon we had a couple classes then ran a compass course. It is reading the compass on different readings and ending up where you are supposed to. Right now its after dark and I'm writing by candle light.

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was even funnier. We had classes in the afternoon and a night problem on patrolling. Wed. morning we had classes and in the afternoon we laid mine fields and learned how to find them and take them up. We also had a little on booby traps. Last night we had fun with one of them for another kid and I rigged one up in the Sgts tent. We had a big fire cracker on it but it made plenty of noise. Believe me, when he crawled into his tent and it went off, he really let out a yell. He still doesn't know where it came from. Some of us walked to a creek and took a bath in the evening. Went to bed fairly early. This morning we ran another problem with the tanks but did not use ammo. This afternoon we had a couple classes then ran a compass course. It is reading the compass on different readings and ending up where you are supposed to. Right now its after dark and I'm writing by candle light.