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dc.creatorHays, Joseph Warren
dc.date.accessioned2020-09-02T18:20:48Z
dc.date.available2020-09-02T18:20:48Z
dc.date.issued1943-04-01
dc.identifier.urihttps://repository.tcu.edu/handle/116099117/40432
dc.descriptionHays left Sheppard Field and is now in Nashville.
dc.format.mediumpaper
dc.languageen_US
dc.relationJoseph Warren Hays Papers (MS 159)
dc.rightsPrior written permission from TCU Special Collections required to use any file.
dc.sourceSeries I, Box 1, Folder 1
dc.subjectWorld War II
dc.subjectUnited States Army
dc.subjectUnited States Army Air Corps
dc.titleHays letter to family
dc.typeDocument
dc.description.transcriptionGet my address from the return on my envelope4-1-43I am still here at Sheppard Field.April Fool!! Ha.No fooling, here I am at the beautiful and picturesque old College located in the quaint old Southern city of Nashville, Tennessee, named Peabody. To save my time, which is still short, I’ll let Ruth describe the place for you. Really it is beautiful here compared to that “hell hole” that we just got out of. Ruth, I live in the Graduate Dormitory, if you remember which one that is. Our classes or regular program hasn’t started yet so I have nothing along that line to tell. So far all we have been doing iscleaning up. This place is filthy. I don’t see how girls lived in it the way that it was. There is soot or coal smoke or something here just like Papa described St. Louis only not quite as bad. Ruth I don’t remember your mentioning the soot or whether “something new has been added” but anyway its here now. The food here is fine, not quite as much as at Sheppard Field, but better, and I might add, much better.The eggs taste like eggs and the potatoes are done. The best thing is that there is all of the milk that you want.When you get your phone bill this month you are going to be mad. If I am not sadly mistaken, I made all of those phone calls person to person. In each case I asked for Mrs.Hays I think. Oh well, live and learn. Last Sunday night while I was talking to you, you remember I said Tony Martin had just finished singing? Well that was just the prelude to the main show. The main show was all imported from Ft. Worth. I knew three or four of the girls and I had seen most of the rest of them before. They were nearly all from Paschal. It was just like a letter from home. We left Sheppard Field at about 8:00 Monday night, and got here at 7:00 Wed. morning. I didn’t catch K.P. during the whole trip and I just had three hours of guard duty. We came on Pullmans so it [was] a very nice trip. I am in a room with three other boys, one from Chicago, and one from New Mexico, and one from California. They are all good boys and we get along fine. I told the Porter that I wanted to go through Ft. Worth and he said perhaps we would. But that old North Star stayed right outside my window instead of getting in behind the trains. You can send my suitcase with three pairs of shorts and undershirts if I have them. Also put in my pajamas. If you happen to bake some icebox cookies you can put them in too.I’ll write in a couple of days.Love, Joe


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  • Joseph Warren Hays Papers [162]
    The collection includes a complete set of letters written by Joseph Warren Hays to his family while serving in the Army Air Corps during World War II. The letters detail his aviation training across the United States and his service in Europe toward the end of the war. In his later years, Mr. Hays wrote recollections of his missions over Europe. The collection also includes printed publications, newspaper clippings, a scrapbook, a photograph of Hays, and ephemera.

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