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dc.creatorGreen, Smith Lowry
dc.date.accessioned2024-10-22T19:39:04Z
dc.date.available2024-10-22T19:39:04Z
dc.date.issued1939-06-04
dc.identifier.urihttps://repository.tcu.edu/handle/116099117/66455
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 009
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 Ft. Benning, Georgia June 4, 1939 Dear Grandma and Grandpa, I rec'd your most welcome letter yesterday and am taking advantage of the first opportunity to answer it. I was very glad to learn that both of you are feeling better and most earnestly that you remain that way. As for me, I am as usual, as fit as a fiddle. Well, I'll give some of the news from this neck of the woods. In the first place, I was in the review of the troops 2 here at Ft. Benning, in fact none of the sutdents were. We got to see it, though. It was in honor of a Dr. Caldwell, I think, who is president of the University of Ga. He gave a graduation speech to the officer students of the Infantry School. May 25 was the big day for the enlisted students. That's the day we got our diplomas. The commandant of the Infantry School made a speech and presented our diplomas and grades. He, General Singleton, also shook hands with us and wished us luck. My grades were pretty good for the course. I made 8 A's and 1 B. That 3 happened to be the highest in the school so I shouldn't kick. After the graduation all the Nat'l Guard students left for home. That left 29 regular Army students to put up 60 miles of overhead wire for umpire control of the coming maneuvers. That was pretty hard work, too. Anyhow, its all up now. June 1, we left our barracks and moved to tents about 15 or 20 miles out on the reservation. Here we will keep up the 4 wire lines and maintain telephone or switchboard stations until the maneuvers are over about June 9. Then we take up the wire as fast as possible and return to our respective posts. The weather is very pretty here now. However it is pretty hot. Last week it rained nearly every day. The flies are very bad and the mosquitoes do their bit also. We have negro cooks from the 24 Infantry so the chow is pretty good. I got a birth announcement from the recently blessed couple. 5 I'm going to congratulate them sometime soon. Please excuse the bad writing but I am lying down on my bunk under a mosquito net trying to write on my knoww. I can't think of anything else to write about so I will close. Tell everyone hello. Give Jewel Dean my congratulations and tell her to write. Take care of yourself. I really must close. Good bye and lots of love. Write soon, Smith S. Green I.S.D. Ft Benning, Ga 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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