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dc.creatorHays, Joseph Warren
dc.date.accessioned2020-09-02T18:22:07Z
dc.date.available2020-09-02T18:22:07Z
dc.date.issued1943-09-17
dc.identifier.urihttps://repository.tcu.edu/handle/116099117/40462
dc.descriptionHays starts with poem he wrote, then rumor that General Marshall is coming.
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.subjectMaxwell Field, AL
dc.titleHays letter to family
dc.typeDocument
dc.description.transcription9-17-4311:45 P.M.Dear Folks,Once again I am a fine guard,At the close of another hard day,While the rest of the barracks is sleeping,In the latrine I’ll stay.TUNE: WHEN ITS SPRINGTIME IN THE ROCKIESI have an opportunity to write you another great masterpiece, like the first letter, only I am not quite sleepy enough. I should have gotten on a handler shift so I would be good and sleepy. This way I won’t get sleepy until tomorrow when classes are going on. Enough foolishness.If I am not badly mistaken something big is going to come off here tomorrow. We are instructed to fall out for reveille in the morning in class A uniforms instead of fatigues. Rumor has it that General Marshall is going to be here. For all I know he may be in Italy but you know how these latrine-a-grams go. Anyhow something is going to happen.I see by the papers that a little squal is expected around the Galveston, Houston, Freeport area. One of the boys here that lives in Corpus Christi says that all of the crops are in and all of the cotton is picked so perhaps it won’t be so bad.I still haven’t seen Jerome yet. I hope I get to see him at least once before he leaves here this month.Mama I got your last letter today, the one with the clipping in it. Send me one of those clippings every once in a while. Maybe I can find out where some of my friends are. I know where most of them are but some I don’t. I found several of them in this clipping.Oh yes, I don’t need any money. And as yet I haven’t taken out any increase.I’ll quit now, study some math, and write again Sunday, Love,JoeP.S. Jay Lewis is back in the cadet corps. He got a woman on his back. He’ll be down next month.


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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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