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dc.creatorGreen, Smith Lowry
dc.date.accessioned2024-10-22T19:36:21Z
dc.date.available2024-10-22T19:36:21Z
dc.date.issued1936-04-11
dc.identifier.urihttps://repository.tcu.edu/handle/116099117/66418
dc.descriptionLetter from Smith Green to his grandparents, William and Mary Green (April 11, 1936).
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 (1936-1937) folder, Item 023
dc.subjectGreen, Smith L.
dc.subjectWorld War II
dc.subjectUnited States Army
dc.titleLetter from Smith Green to grandma and grandpa
dc.typeDocument
dc.description.transcription1 Fort Sam Houston, Texas April 11, 1936 Dear Grandma and Grandpa, I'll be you're surprized to hear from me so soon after the last letter. I was sitting in the Day Room studying the Mechanical Functions of Machine Guns and my mind started wandering from here to there. I meant to ask you to send me all of my pictures in the last letter but as usual I forgot it. So I decided to write another letter and ask for them. 2 So if it isn't too much trouble, I wish you would gather together all my pictures and send them to me. I think most of them are in the big envelope with Mother's picture. Get all of them, will you? I am getting along fine in the Tank Company. I have been doing special duty for the past few days. "C" company of the 23rd infantry is being motorized as an experiment. Each squad has a truck. There is two machine guns, and a radio set in each truck, and each man has a automatic rifle. They 3 are a kind of shock troops. They go from here to there wherever the fighting is the toughest. And with the radio sets they can give orders immediately even if they are miles apart, that's the way they keep in touch with each other. The tank company had the job of installing the radios and furnishing part of the trucks. So that's what I have been doing. Installing transmitters and receivers in trucks. In the afternoons I go out with them and see that the radios work and 4 that they are properly handled. All I do is ride around and when the dough-boys scurry out into the mesquite with their machine guns to halt the advance of the "enemy," I just sit. Not so bad, is it? Well I guess you are about fed up listening to my gab about the army so I'll can it. I went to the Army League fight last night and the night before. There was about 10 bouts each night. Some pretty good fights too. Next time you see Florence, ask her to drop me a line, that is, if it isn't too much trouble for her. I wrote 5 her about two or three months ago and haven't gotten an answer yet. Let her know about my change of address. Did you know that yesterday was the eleventh month I have been in the Army? It doesn't seem that long does it? At least it doesn't to me. I don't feel like I have changed much but I have. I am a good deal larger and I am not so ignorant of life as I was. Coming in contact with all kinds of people has a tendency to "Wise one 6 up" to use some Army slanguage. In fact I can see where I have matured a lot since I have been in the Army. Well we change uniforms the 15th of this month. The woolen uniforms are getting pretty warm now. We change to khaki. I think I'll have my picture taken again next month so you can see how I look now. Well, keep Grandpa inside in bad weather. Give Uncle Cad my regards and tell Lurline and Irvin hello. Don't forget the pictures. Lots of love to all. Smith S.L. GREEN 2ND TANK CO. FT. SAM HOUSTON, TEXAS MR. W.M. GREEN BOX #426 BROKEN BOW, OKLAHOMA


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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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