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Jack Hyde correspondence, 1930-1976
Jack L. Hyde to Pearl Hyde Page 2
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a regiment of para-troopers. this camp is really immense. They say it would take more than a day to travel this camp completely. The barracks life is quite complicated. There are 30 men to a floor in barracks (2 floors), and also 3 non-commissioned officers to each floor. We have a few hangers for our clothes and the rest we pack neatly in a foot locker at the foot of our beds. It's a metal box about 2'x2'x3'. with a tray that lifts out like our steamer trunk. To-day was a bad day, inasmuch as it was weekly inspection day. None of us knew the exact way things should be prepared, except that they should be clean. So, last night, I collared a non-com and brot him back to barracks to show us how. We had to pack our field packs and buckle them over the rear end of the bed. Also our gas-mask and case. Then we had to lay out our foot lockers in a certain order. With the underwear neatly rolled, one by one, across the bottom. from right to left -- thusly: 1 razor 2 shoe brush 3 soap 4 tooth brush 5 comb 6. misc. soldiers handbook, new [illegible] etc. [Diagram of bottom part of footlocker; diagram of tray of footlocker] This is the tray
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a regiment of para-troopers. this camp is really immense. They say it would take more than a day to travel this camp completely. The barracks life is quite complicated. There are 30 men to a floor in barracks (2 floors), and also 3 non-commissioned officers to each floor. We have a few hangers for our clothes and the rest we pack neatly in a foot locker at the foot of our beds. It's a metal box about 2'x2'x3'. with a tray that lifts out like our steamer trunk. To-day was a bad day, inasmuch as it was weekly inspection day. None of us knew the exact way things should be prepared, except that they should be clean. So, last night, I collared a non-com and brot him back to barracks to show us how. We had to pack our field packs and buckle them over the rear end of the bed. Also our gas-mask and case. Then we had to lay out our foot lockers in a certain order. With the underwear neatly rolled, one by one, across the bottom. from right to left -- thusly: 1 razor 2 shoe brush 3 soap 4 tooth brush 5 comb 6. misc. soldiers handbook, new [illegible] etc. [Diagram of bottom part of footlocker; diagram of tray of footlocker] This is the tray
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