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Carroll Steinbeck letters to parents, January - April, 1945

Carroll Steinbeck to Alfred and Vira Steinbeck Page 3

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Yes dad, the gang is still together. That really helps.
They sort of relaxed the censorship a little, so they tell me, and we can mention a little about some of our experiences. You said you wanted to know what I was doing if I could tell you so here goes. Probably the most exciting and funniest things was the first shelling we got by gunman artillery. I was in bed when the shells started landing. Incidentally, I was sleeping in an old building. They sent word down for my squad to get out to the gun so we grabbed some clothes and took off on the run. I got about thirty yds. from the building when a shell hit close by and the shrapnel flew by in all directions. I reached up and darned if I hadn't forgotten my steel helmet. I took off back for the building about 90 M.P.H and ran through the door without bothering to open it. I made it to the gun ok this time. The shells were really coming over then. We would hear the guns report, then the shells hissing toward us, then came the explosion. Got so you counted

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3 Yes dad, the gang is still together. That really helps. They sort of relaxed the censorship a little, so they tell me, and we can mention a little about some of our experiences. You said you wanted to know what I was doing if I could tell you so here goes. Probably the most exciting and funniest things was the first shelling we got by gunman artillery. I was in bed when the shells started landing. Incidentally, I was sleeping in an old building. They sent word down for my squad to get out to the gun so we grabbed some clothes and took off on the run. I got about thirty yds. from the building when a shell hit close by and the shrapnel flew by in all directions. I reached up and darned if I hadn't forgotten my steel helmet. I took off back for the building about 90 M.P.H and ran through the door without bothering to open it. I made it to the gun ok this time. The shells were really coming over then. We would hear the guns report, then the shells hissing toward us, then came the explosion. Got so you counted