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dc.creatorGreen, Smith Lowry
dc.date.accessioned2024-10-22T19:38:39Z
dc.date.available2024-10-22T19:38:39Z
dc.date.issued1939-11
dc.identifier.urihttps://repository.tcu.edu/handle/116099117/66450
dc.descriptionLetter from Smith Green to his grandparents, William and Mary Green, giving updates.
dc.format.medium8.5x11 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 to Grandma & Grandpa 1939-41, 1945-46 (not POW) folder, Item 014
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.transcriptionP.S. The date is one day different over here because we crossed the international date line. One day we went to bed on Friday night and woke up the next morning and it was Sunday. Love Smith Dear Grandma and Grandpa, Well, here I am at last in Manila, P.I. We arrived in Manila Bay after dark on Thursday the 26th and dropped anchor until morning. About 8 AM on the 27th we docked and were greeted by the 31st Infantry band and practically every soldier that could get off. After we got off the boat we had a physical inspection and were vaccinated again for typhoid. Oh, yes! I'll mention Honolulu again. We got there at 2 P.M. one day and pulled out at noon next day. Two former members of the 2d Tank Co. were at the dock to meet me and the other three. They showed us around town. WE saw the original hula-hula by native girls at the Y.M.C.A. Honolulu is a very pretty city with all the tropical plants and flowers in abundance. I didn't get to see Schofield Barracks, the big Army post, because it is about 25 miles from town. After we left Honolulu, we had 10 days at sea before we sighted Guam. We only stayed there about 8 hrs, so didn't see much. There is no docks there so we anchored in a kind of by and went ashore in Navy launches. The enlisted men couldn't go to the capital, Agana, because it was seven miles from where we landed. The place we saw was Piti, a clump of bamboo and thatched roof houses, among coconut and banana groves and rice paddies. The entire Island of Guam is a naval reservation so is a closed port. That is only gov't boats stop there. The place I'm in now is the Cuartel de Expana, inside the old walled city. The rest of the regiment, the 2d & 3d battalions, are in the EStado Mayor, on the banks of the Pasig river. All the construction of buildings are tropical. Just enough framework to hold them up with wide spaces of screen wire. I don't know much of the place yet but will write more when I do find out. Remember the address is Hq. Co., 31st Infantry Manila, P.I. I'm feeling fine and hope you are the same. Please write soon because it takes about a month for a letter to get here. All my love, Smith S.L. Green HQ. Co. 31st Inf. Manila, P.I. Mr. W.M. Green Box 426 Broken Bow, Oklahoma U.S.A.


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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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