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dc.creatorGreen, Smith Lowry
dc.date.accessioned2024-10-22T19:39:57Z
dc.date.available2024-10-22T19:39:57Z
dc.date.issued1940-04-23
dc.identifier.urihttps://repository.tcu.edu/handle/116099117/66465
dc.descriptionLetter from Smith Green to his grandparents, William and Mary Green, giving updates.
dc.format.medium4.75x7 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 019
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.transcriptionHq. Co., 31st Inf Manila, P.I. April 23, 1940 Dear Grandpa and Grandma, Here I am again, tardy as usual. I guess you think I am very lazy, and I must confess that partly right. Its so awfully hot here that no one has any ambition except to sleep away all spare time because when one is asleep the heat isn't felt. But when you wake up you're drenched with perspiration. Everything is rolling along smoothly now (except for the heat) The regiment is back from range practice and of course everyone was tickled to be back in barracks with running water, beds, barber shop, shows, etc. After being out in the jungles and mountains for six weeks or more. We hardly ever have to work in the afternoons any more because of the heat. Next month we go to Camp John Hay at Baguio. That is up inthe mountains at about 5000 ft. elevation so is nice and cool the year around. We will be there for ten days rest. Thats up where the Bontocs and Igorots live. The men wear "G" strings and the women wear short skirts (only). I can't say that I've actually seen and headhunters because I don't know. I saw some pretty wild specimens, armed with bows, arrows, and bolos. They may have been headhunters. Any how they wouldn't have been so foolish as to attack a camp of at least 1500 soldiers, all well armed. And when we left camp we had to carry pistols or rifles and ammunition and a bolo. And one man couldn't go alone. Tell Mrs. Bates that I don't know Earlton Burris. Besides the 31st Inf there is Quartermaster, Signal, Chemical Warfare and other troops in Manila. Then on the island of Corregidor, there is two regiments of Coast Artillery that man the big guns. Corregidor is as impregnable as Gibralter and is situated squarely in the mouth of Manila Bay. They have enough food and ammunition to last for a year in case of an emergency. I hope it is nice and sunny there by now. At least it should be by the time the letter arrives. Also in a few days I will be here six months. Only eighteen more to go. I don't know whether I told you or not but I made expert with the pistol again. I also am a First class Private again. Tell Ray, Pearl, Aunt Lucia, Jewel Dean, Aunt Lois, Uncle Charley, Uncle George, Bea and everyone else hello. I dropped Jewel Dean a card from Honolulu and am sure a letter from here but no answer. Don't worry about my falling in love with these girls. I prefer American blondes. TAke care of yourselves, All my Love Smith S. 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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