Dear Jim,
Con£jratulntions for the good tfork you vnd your fellow helpers a.re doing.
You make us feel r.s if we were v.t home .igr.in sitting on the. FAI'IOUS RAIL instead
of 3J1 our rooms reading HOT OFF THE HOOVER RAIL.
I'm sure you folks at home could do nothing i/hich w6 fellows in the Service
vrould appreciate more than H.O.T.H.R. I sometimes think v;e fellows in the Service
might publish a paper to boost the MORAL on the HQvIE FRONT.
Miami Beach of today is quite a contrast to the MIAIvII Beach of yesterday.
Gone are most of the pleasure seekers and in their place come the MiU OF THE
ARIjIY AIR CORPS. One of the best outfits on the face of GOD'S GREEN EARTH. The
streets aiid Golf courses are crowded from Dav;n until Dusk with m?.rching men.
Some one once said A Singing Army is a V/inning Army. I wish all the people
at home could hear these men sing from dawn until dark as they march to and
from their Drill Fields. I also i/ish Hitler, Mussolini, Tojo and Company could
hear them. I'm sure it would sound like a funeral march to them.
Of course their favorite song is THE ARIIY AIR CORPS song so here it is.
(Chorus)
"Off we go into the i/ild blue younder, Here’s a toast to the host of those
Climbing high into the sun; v;ho love the vastness of the skyj
Here they come zooming to meet our thunder, To a friend we ;vill send a message
At 'em boys, give 'or the gun] of his brother men ¥/ho fly,
Dovmi we dive spouting our flajne from under. We drink tc; those who gave their all
Off v.'ith one hcllvue roar! of old.
We live in fajne or go do^'/n in flrjne? Then dovm we roar to score the rain-
Nothing'll stop the ABIjH AIR CORPS! bow's pot of g-old
A Toast to the host of men v/e boast,
the Army Air Corps.
I would like to e:{press my appreciation to all my friends in Lawndale
for thinking of my self and the other men in the Service.
Best wishes,
Lt. V/. J. (Bill) Burns
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Dear Friends:
I have received my two copies of "Hot off the Hoover Rail" and enjoyed
reading every word of it. It helps me a lot to know how things are going back
in Lavmdale.
I am in the Cqu. 5Jupply, have been since Dsccmbor and have learned a lot
about supply work. The main thing I have learned is its a tough job and has
long hours in which to work, but I'm the man to talce it.
I ran up on a boy in Alpine, about 18 miles from Marfa, from South Carolina.
He said he v/as listening to a quiz program here in Texas and in the program they
had a Georgia boy on the air. The question ;vas hovj did he like Texas? He said
"V/ell, I've seen two things I like and they were two east bound trains," That's
about the same v/ay vjith the rest of us eastern boys, but wo realize the job must
be done and we arc here to do it, and the best of luck to you all back home.
So thanks again for the paper, vdshing for j^'our continued success.
Pfc, J, W. Costner, Jr.
Marfa Field, Texas
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Dear Mr. Osborne:
It v;as very nice of you to thinlc of a paper to send us Service men—the
news of the "Hoover Rail."
I have just finished reading my second copy of .your "Hoover Rail" and en
joyed every item.
It miade me feel good that the folks back home arc thinkin|f of us and con
gratulations to whoever the idea belongs to rjid to all v/ho made it possible.
I am sure everyone of the boys enjoyed it.
Yours very truly.
Pvt. Earnest L. Vi/hite.