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dc.creatorGreen, Smith Lowry
dc.date.accessioned2024-10-22T19:38:49Z
dc.date.available2024-10-22T19:38:49Z
dc.date.issued1939-02-10
dc.identifier.urihttps://repository.tcu.edu/handle/116099117/66452
dc.descriptionLetter from Smith Green to his grandparents, William and Mary Green, giving updates.
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 to Grandma & Grandpa 1939-41, 1945-46 (not POW) folder, Item 013
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.transcriptionFt. Sam Houston, Texas February 10, 1939 Dear Grandma & Grandpa, I haven't heard from you for some time so I thought I would surprise you by writing first. I am feeling fine as usual, although las week I had a bad cold, sore throat and a little fever. Everything is getting along about as usual in Ft. Sam Houston. The ARmy has changed our uniforms some. Now we wear trousers, or slacks, as soldiers call them, instead of breeches and leggins. They are much more comfortable 2 than breeches. When we are in the field we wear canvas leggins over the slacks. I was very fortunate in some examinations we had last December and have been ordered to the Infantry Communications School at Fort Benning, Georgea. I leave about the 17th of this month and have to be there by the 24th. I can stop over for a day or two in New Orleans if I care to. I go at gov't expense and get $2.25 a day for food. 3 I won't get back until the middle of June or thereabouts. I hope you both are in the best of health and are doing fine. Be sure to take good care of yourselves. Tell everybody hello for me. I hope to be able to be home for awhile when I get back from the school. I am sending a few pictures that the Engineers took at Ft. McIntosh. They can't show them as they really looked and felt, but you can get an idea. 4 Well, folks I must be closing. Unless you answer at once wait until I write from Benning so you will know my exact address. With all my love Smith P.S. The pictures are supposed to be important. I don't have but one set of some so please send back those I mark. Love Smith. S. Green 2nd Tank Co Ft. Sam Houston 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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