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Carroll Steinbeck letters to parents, May - June, 1944

Carroll Steinbeck to Alfred and Vira Steinbeck Page 1

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May 30, 1944 Dear Folks, I'm writing this through the noon hour so it may be pretty short. I thought I'd better get at least a note on the way letting you know that nothing is wrong except I'm being rushed. I'll do my best. I wrote last Wed. I guess. We finished the week by night problems and work through the day. In the day time we worked on tactics with the mortar and then Thur night we had infiltration problems till midnight. That is where you try to sneak through the enemy lines and get to work on them from behind. Again Fri. night we took a fifteen mile march. By this time we we were getting pretty tired so they gave us Sat morning off. I was on a detail to clean up our PX so it wasn't much rest. Sat afternoon I did some of my odd jobs so I'd have
 
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