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dc.creatorGreen, Smith Lowry
dc.date.accessioned2024-10-22T19:35:13Z
dc.date.available2024-10-22T19:35:13Z
dc.date.issued1935-10-31
dc.identifier.urihttps://repository.tcu.edu/handle/116099117/66353
dc.descriptionLetter from Smith Green to his grandparents, William and Mary Green and Uncle Cad (October 31, 1935).
dc.format.medium5x8 paper
dc.relationSmith Lowry Green Collection (MS 179)
dc.rightsPrior written permission from TCU Special Collections required to use any document or photograph
dc.sourceBox 002, Correspondence-Letters to grandparents (1935-1936) folder, Item 006
dc.subjectGreen, Smith L.
dc.subjectWorld War II
dc.subjectUnited States Army
dc.titleLetter from Smith Green to grandma, grandpa, and uncle
dc.typeDocument
dc.description.transcription1 Ft. Sam Houston, Texas October 31, 1935. Dear Grandma, Grandpa, and Uncle Cad- Hello folks, how's everybody by now? I hope you all are as fine as I am. I got your letter while we were at "good ol' Camp Bullis" on the Regular Army Annual Maneuvers. We left here Sunday morning, Oct. 20, at 8:00 A.M. for the Leon Springs Military Reservation on which Camp Bullis is situated. We went to the far side to Oppenheimer Ranch which is about 30 miles from here. We 2 camped there until Monday morning and started maneuvering We hardly stopped from then on until the rain and cold weather ran us in. I never got to sleep until 2 or 3 o'clock in the morning and sometimes we didn't eat until then either. I was a lineman and I had a test phone hung over my shoulder about half the time chasing off in the dark trouble shooting on some lines. It rained and turned cold Tuesday night and of course I got we as well as everybody else and so did all my equipment. 3 We managed to get along until Wednesday evening when it started raining again and the temperature dropped to about 40°. We pitched pup tents in the rain but we were already wet and the tents leaked too so finally we got orders to move out. We threw our stuff together and started out. We walked about 3 miles through mud and water from ankle deep to knee deep and the mud here is really muddy. We finally got to the trucks and came in. As there were 4 about 500 Army trucks on the road it took us 2 1/2 hours to make the 27 miles. There were 16 enlisted men and the captain in the truck I was in. We were so cramped and cold we could hardly walk when we got in. But the unfortunate ones who brough the animals in caught it worse than us. They rode the horses and led mules 30 miles that night in the rain and wet. But its part of the army life and we can take it. There was a bunch of Anti-Aircraft from Ft Crockett up here for maneuvers. They of course you may wear my sweater. Put the letter with my other junk. 5 put on a demonstration on night. They had four 3 inch anti-aircraft guns, 4 anti-aircraft machine guns, 4 big searchlights, etc. They could spot a plane before we could hear the motors and put all four searchlights on it. They they would start shooting with the three inch guns then as the plane came nearer the machine guns would cut loose. The searchlights were of about 5'in diamter and had a range of about 7 or 8 miles. It was a good show. Don't let anything happen to Bruce. I want to see him when I come home. I can't come at Christmas but I'm sure I will by the Fourth of July. 6 Tell Jack K. he may use my books. Tell him hello when you see him. I heard Geraldine and Helen got married a day or two after they were married. Yes, Natalie and Louis have separated several times. The last time, Natalie cut Louis's all to pieces. When you see Helen Walden tell her hello. It don't look like I can send #9.00 this mount, as a boy that I loaned money to couldn't pay me. I'm sorry. I had a dime for myself. Well I must close. Lots of Love, Smith S.L. Green Hdqrs. Co. 23rd Inf. Ft. Sam Houston, Tex. Mr. W.M. Green Box 426 Broken Bow, Okla.


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    Smith L. Green fought in the Pacific Theatre of World War II. He was a prisoner of war from 1942 to 1945. He also fought in the Korean War. Green attended graduate school at Texas Christian University, graduating in 1961.

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