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dc.creatorGreen, Smith Lowry
dc.date.accessioned2024-10-22T19:40:38Z
dc.date.available2024-10-22T19:40:38Z
dc.date.issued1941-06-22
dc.identifier.urihttps://repository.tcu.edu/handle/116099117/66473
dc.descriptionLetter from Smith Green to his grandparents, William and Mary Green, giving updates.
dc.format.medium5.5x7.5 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 021
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 Infantry Manila, P.I. 22 June 41 Dear Grandma and Grandpa, I know you thought I was never going to write and I can't blame you at all. I can't say that I didn't have time because I did but I just kept putting it off. I hope you haven't worried about me. It was very thoughtless of me not to write. I haven't written Virginia or Doris or any one Since Dec. I don't know what got into me. Every thing is more or less calm over here. air raid sirens are being put up over Manila and people or building bomb-proofs. No telling when the lid is going to blow off. No one is going to get excited though, it seems. We soldiers spend more and more time in the field at our various defense positions. All most any morning the "alert" call goes and we jump out of bed, dress, roll packs, draw arms, load equipment and pull out for Southern Luzon for ten days or two weeks. Then we hike back about 60 or 70 miles just to toughen us up. Some fun! I expect and alert call in the morning. I suppose its pretty warm there by now. I hope this letter gets there by the fourth of July. I certainly would like to be there for a reunion but it looks as if that will be some time from now. I doubt if I can leave here for another year even if there is no war. If there is, Quien sabe! There are men over here now that were due to go back in February. I got all your clippings but just didn't answer. I'm sure I answered the one about Robert McGowens death. I would like to see John's baby. Did I tell you that Virginia is having another one in August? Looks like you will have enough great-grand-children to have an Army of your own if this mass production keeps up. The first five months of this year was asfully hot and dry. The temperature was the highest ever recorded in Manila. It is beginning to rain now and has cooled off somewhat. It won't be long until the rainy season will be going full blast and then it will rain practically all the time. Righ tnow it looks as if Germany and Russia might tangle. If they do it will help England a good deal because Germany will have to use at least 2,000,000 soldiers against Russia. Still it may be just a bluff or blind. I am in the best of health as usual. I hope you both are feeling fine as can be. Tell all my friends and relatives hello for me. I don't know when I'll get to tell them myself. Say hello to Imogene Story and Fred Bruton and any others you may see. Hope you have a fine time the 4th. I expect to be on a nice, long hike about that time. Please forgive me for not writing sooner. All my love, Smith S. Green Hq. Co. 31st Inf Manila, P.I. WRITTEN 6/22/1941 AIR MAIL Mr. W.M. Green Broken Bow, Oklahoma Box 426 U.S.A. Rec'd Tuesday July 8 1941


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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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