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LETTERS HOME:
THE ECHO
Dear Mr. Straus: (Walter)
T„«t wSf T ’ are things coming on at the plant? I sure do miss that place.
Just wish I were back. Maybe after this war I can come back in peace. I hope
cup. I am ashamed of you. I
really thought you had a team, but since all the boys have had to leave for
it forever ^ forgive you. After we all come back we will keep
Tiu + ■ mad because you haven’t been sending me the Echo every month,
hat IS the only thing I can go by. I really enjoy reading it very much.
Will have to close for the sea is getting pretty rough. Hope to see
you all soon.
Yours truly,
_JAMES AVERY (S2/c)
Editor s Note; The Echo is now being sent each month and Champagne did
get the cup.
Camp Lee, Va.
Dear Walter: (Straus)
^ ^ Q- instead of Air Corps, as
^ I ^ would be better fitted here. We work hard and sweat more
than I did in the Shipping Department. Too tired to bowl if I had time
JIMMIE
(James R. Glanville, Private)
TT n Fort Knox, Ky.
Hello Boys:
Maybe at last I have found time to write you a letter.
Well, it took me two weeks to get through all examinations. I am
now stationed at Fort Knox. I will be here for eight to twelve weeks for my
basic training. I am now learning to drive a half-track. It is almost like a
tank, and will go anywhere a tank will go. It is used to carry troops and
supplies into combat zones.
We sure do have a nice camp. It covers 111,000 acres and has build
ings capable of caring for 55,000 men.
How is everything going in Champagne now? Sarah wrote me that
James has gone to sea. Our company expects to be sent across in a few
months. We sometimes get off at 12:00 on Saturday and are off until Mon
day at 6:00 a. m. So the Army life isn’t so very bad after all. We have six
theatres on our post. We get all the latest shows too.
Has Champagne lost any ball games yet? We play soft ball every day
and we have a good team too. They sure do believe in giving you enough
clothes to keep warm. I can hardly carry all of them.
This Army life sure does make you appreciate a good job like you
fellows have. If anybody thinks foremen are tough, wait until they get into
the Army.
Please write to me sometime soon. I will be glad to hear from all
of you.
Your friend,
SID HEDDEN (Sidney J. Hedden, Private)
Iceland, Sept 5, 1942
Dear Mr. Straus:
I am thanking you for your letter and the Echo, which I received
yesterday. I am sorry I have not written you before now but since we left
the States I have been busy and working very hard to try to complete this
job so that we can come back to the States.
I am doing very good up here and enjoying the best of health. The
only thing that bothers me is our mail. It seems as though the folks just
don’t realize how much the letters they write mean to us over here, or I
am sure they would write more often.
There is very little I can say about camp life here. We have three
different movies a week and we have a recreation hall now being built
which will house all our games, of which there are a great many. And
then we have a band started which I know will put on some fine music for
the boys here at camp. This is about all I can say about our camp life with
out endangering our mates here.
So with the close of this letter let me thank you again for your let
ter which** I appreciate very much, and the paper which I also treasure to
the highest.
Tell Mr. Colwell he should hire him a ball team, for those scores
look like some I helped them make last season.
Sincerely yours,
MARVIN V. CABLE (Seaman 1st Class)
October, 1942
To Mr. Wells:
address. Thanks for the past copies'-
ot the Echo.
Best wishes to Ecusta and all my friends there.
Sincerely,
ED RUNNION
New York, N. Y.
To Mr. Straus:
I received the latest copy of the Echo several weeks ago and certain
ly was glad to get it. I have been intending to write for some time but it
seems that when a person is in the Army, he doesn’t have much time to
write letters.
I have been around quite a bit since I left Ecusta eight months ago.
First, I went, to Mississippi, then California, and now am a mechanic with
the 38th Fighter Squadron here in Washington. It has been pretty tough
at times,^ but as long as it is for Uncle Sam I don’t mind
Give^my regards to the Ecustans and thanks again for the Echo.
Sincerely yours,
EARL T. FULLBRIGHT
To
Mr. Wells:
The Echo came as a most welcome surprise. I surely enjoyed read
ing about my friends at Ecusta. I want to thank you for sending it to
In the five months I have been in the Army I have been in four dif'
ferent camps. Fort Bragg, N. C., Camp Lee, Va., Fort Story, Va and I
now at Camp Edwards, Mass., going to mechanical school. It is nice and cool
here.
With best wishes to all of my friends at Ecusta, I am.
Very sincerely,
„ „, , WILLIAM H. GASH
Camp Edwards, Mass.
1942
September 19,
Brevard, N. C.
Mr. Walter Cox
Chief Paper Roller Outer,
Finishing Department,
Ecusta Paper Corporation
My dear Mr. Cox:— -
It has been brought to my attention by my secretary, that you are
due the amount of seventeen cents in regard to a recent lunch loan.
I am herewith enclosing said amount and trust that this will bring
about a balance on your books.
Very sincerely yours,
Jack D. Morgan
(FBI)*
Fort Bragg Infantry.
To Mr. Wells: ,
The Army is trying to make an educated man out of me, or else I’m
awful dumb! I’m going to school again. This time I’m taking a 10-week
Maintenance at Fort Knox, Ky. I’ll be here until the mid
dle of October. They certainly have been moving me around.
Please let me have John Drake’s address. I wan’t to write to him
Also, will you let Mr. Straus know of my change. As ever,
BOB BOLT
Fort Knox, Ky.
To Mr. Wells:
I received a copy of the Echo. It surely was fine to read about what
the people are doing at Ecusta. I sure did enjoy it and want to thank
for sending it to me.
finish our job I’m looking forward to the time when I
be back at Ecusta, and that time can’t be too soon for me.
Thanking you again for the Echo, and best wishes to Ecusta.
Sincerely,
^ „ WINBORN L. GASH'
Fort Jackson, S. C.
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Dear Mr. Straus:
I am sorry that I haven’t answered your letter sooner but I haven’^
had much time. This is a Replacement Training Center and it sure keeps
a fellow busy.
I like this camp fine but had rather be back at Ecusta with my friefldSi
but we all have a job to do to win this war so I will take it on the chin wit^J
hopes of being back with you in the near future, because this war can’t
very long with the men we are sending across.
I don t know what my uncle had against me but I believe he coul*^
have sent me to a better state than Texas.
Please send me an Echo each month for I enjoy reading of the progr^s®
of Ecusta.
Yours truly,
JOHN PAGE
Camp Barkeley, Texas
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Fort Still, Oaklahoma, Sept. 13, 1942
Dear Mr. Straus:
I have been getting a copy of the Echo for some six months, eV^f
though I have neglected sending my thanks for your thoughtfulness. I
forward each month for my copy.
I think it a swell idea that you publish the letters from the boy^
It helps us to keep in touch with each other in case of a new address.
It sure will be great to be back at Ecusta with all the nice fello'^^
I hope to get a furlough in a month orso. I will visit the mill while thefj
I like Ft. Still fine. We boys doing our part to “keep ’em rolling'
I hope to stay here for some time, as my wife is visiting me. She is
Ecusta employee also. (Julia Jordan, formerly in Champagne Ha**®
Booklet Department.)
Thanks again and again for the Echo. Please continue sending a copJ'
each month as I like to keep up with the “mill chatter”.
Sincerely yours,
D. S. WINCHESTER (Private 1st Class)
Fort McClellan, Ala.
Dear Mr. Straus:
I miss working for you and wish I was back, and when I get throU^*’
with this new job I’ll be glad to start where I left off.
Yours truly,
MAJORine BEVACQUA (Private)
Keesler Field, Miss.
Dear Mr. Straus:
I received your letter and a copy of the Echo and enjoyed readii’^
them very much.
I wish to thank you and your employees for the nice treatment th^
was shown me while I was working for you.
You requested me to write something of my Army life. Well, it t
quite different from civilian life but I like it fine. I am taking training
Aviation Machinist for the large bombers, which is very interesting work-
I am very proud to be remembered on the service flag which you ha''"
raised at the plant.
Again thanking you and wishing you the very best of luck in
future.
Sincerely yours,
W. EDWIN DRAKE (Private)
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will be going on lots more so be
sure to let us know if you would like
to have your name put in the pot.
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