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1944 THE ECHO PAGE FIFTEEN ws From Former Employees Now In Service ■ps sf' lan Gri /Vnaly^ ■ring He aNiT •M Traveled around K'* Sexton, SK 3-c, writes Beach, Long Island, N. ij,' ■ • I went to England aboard ship, I can say that you j Know what a good country in till you leave it, so now , ^ore proud of the States than j, oefore. I went to Plymouth, > Liverpool, Scotland. The Was with is over in France ^ am here waiting for new or- !) L: • • I sure was glad when Room won the baseball if,/’ ^ only wish I could have ’ r Ga. ^ j ^oss a boy in England who '^ork there. We talked • We are doing a swell here ... I’d like to give j Cross some credit; if it ' 1 111 k H would be in bad shape. i ieri credit too. They have Tl« ^ h® iri ^ “^Sht At Camp Picket Is Now Overseas tbe^'^ nieriy is dO'^ servi^® rett) ^ ttesj oft*® iie^' . US' seP^‘ ENJOYS CHRISTMAS BOX CpL J. D. Poland writes from a hospital overseas: “I received the Christmas parcel in excellent I shape. We are having quite a lot of fun with the “Magic Horse I Race” ... I enjoy the candy and cookies very much, we haven’t been getting very many sweets I lately ... I look forward to re ceiving the Echo because it vis ualizes our yesterdays and gives us many hopes for tomorrow . Many thanks and a Merry Christ mas.” no really appreciate Hav boilers in navy ^ Howell Medford, fireman from Fort Pierce, Fla.: % J®} better satisfied now that oi*" my work that I was next ^ i tiijj. ^ firing boilers nrei^ h niakes me feel at home. rate changed in order firing again. They gave s service pay which more Tpii niy previous rating. *^e K • Finck that I am back business again. Send my to the gang at the Boiler * • . Hoping to get this over .quickly as possible and re- f to good old W. N. C. CPL. JOE E. JONES is now at Camp Pickett, Va. He was pre viously stationed at Ft. Sill, Okla. May 30, '41, he entere,d the; army. Cpl. Jones was em ployed in the Machine Room. A brother, M-Sgt. “Speedy” Jones, is now in Italy. CPL. CHARLES MITCHELL is now with an artillery battalion in North Africa. CpL Mitchell has been in the^ army nearly two years. He trained at Ft. Bliss, Tex., before going overseas. At Ecusta he was employed as a Vacuum Washer operator. RUNNION MEETS BALEY Sgt. Ed Runnion writes from France: .. Thanks for the Christ- maSr package. It is very nice I Bill Baley came by a day or so ago. It was good to see him. Of course we talked over the old times at Ecusta. I imagine quite I a few Ecusta men are in France but I haven’t seen any except Bill . . . Not much news from here . . . I Still doing fine and am anxiously awaiting the chance to be back home . , Prisoner Of War Overseas 11 Months lute- ^ best tlje i0‘ B. Clark, S 2-c, writes ^^°»iewhere in the Pacific; y kinda’ busy getting set- toP to sea life. There isn’t ifiU ® out here. Just a few sea ^ plenty of water .,. Guess up leS: oJi good company in the PLENTY OF WATER M if running along fine espe- Jjj Finishing department.” bl JN DASH ACROSS ^NCE and BELGIUM iJ Chris Costanza in a re- ! “I am now a light tank , ; .r^ch is a promotion since - j'c ty I wrote you. I like it wo I ^ Hu ’ much as I liiiAir Ecusta, ■a * Y \ *®CEIVES ECHOS s® I Middleton writes that it seems f one there is “on the Usoi! ^^Ses, “Keep the good J S we’ll try to do the J here until it’s finished.” P®1 SOMETIMES AHEAD S-SGT. CARLOS JOHN Mc- CALL has been a prisoner of war of Germany since May 24, '44. Formerly an operator in Champagne's Printing Dept., he entered the Army Air corps in January, ’43. Sgt. McCall was a gunner on a B17 Flying Fort ress. McCormick writes (o;^»ice: ». . . I have been time and have been ^ hot places—and I don’t | 'Weather. Don’t let any- |k you the Ordnance stays the lines. They are, Wji^^ead of the Infantry ^ know . . . We S woBse weather every . rain than we had * > ®nd it is very cold. ^ ^“6 you go it’s mud up to 1 11 SPEEDY JONES ON THE BEAM Writes T-Sgt. Earl Fulbright from the European theater . . Speedy is a crew chief, and his ship is leading in missions and number of hours. Once he worked for 62 hours straight to keep his ship in the air. He came over here to do a job, and believe me, he’s doing a bang-up one . . . He’s a home-town man that the home' town folks should really be proud of.” ECHO IS GREAT HELP Echo'is great help in keeping me informed about our service men,” writes Pfc. A. Cortez Hyder from Belgium . . . “The people here are very nice and friendly to the American boys. Most of them are able to speak only the Flemish language, altho’ some speak a little English and French. • . . It seems quite odd to see a person wearing wood shoes. Quite a few people wear them here.” IN THE MARIANAS ISLANDS Sgt. Bill Daly, USMC, writes from the Central Pacific: “. . . I have been fortunate in being pro moted to sergeant ... I would like to return to the States a ser- 1 geant but if getting home means bemg broken down to a buck pri vate I would gladly take the bust in rank and go home for awhile . . . All I want to be after this war is over with is a peace loving citizen with plenty to eat . . . Re- I gards to the folks back there . . PFC. THEODORE HOXIT, above, is now in Italy. A mem ber of the 5th Air Forces ground crew, he has been overseas 11 months; he^ entered the service in January, '43. Pfc. Hoxit is a former employee of the Fibre Warehouse. SENDS CHRISTMAS GREETINGS Pfc. Benjamin F. Walker virites from somewhere in France: “I am in good health and hope you all are fine. ... It isn’t too bad here although I’d rather be back i States . . , Mail calls are dear to most of us, so hoping you peo- - - — 1 pie at home and Ecusta a Merry V summer Christmas and may the next year ’ • 'be a happier one than this.” t' and everyone has small ^ —- llAi.1 . WRITES OF PASTIMES Cpl. Rastus Smith writes from somewhere in the P a c i f i e: . . It’s Sunday here today and it’s a very nice day . . . Usually go bathing, but I haven’t been today. This morning I virote a few let ters, washed a few clothes, and looked at a few old magazines. It’s about 1:30 now and I’ve started to write letters again . . . Through the week I usually go to the movies if I’m not too tired ... I’m learn ing a good trade . . . just in case I would like to do mechanic work in civilian life . . .” IS FINE IN SPIRIT Pfc. Wade M. Scroggs writes from France . . . “Would like to receive the Echo each month . . . The Germans didn’t take every thing over here, for we are in what I would call cattle country; we see a lot of cattle, also fine pastures . . . Wishing Ecusta and all there the best of luck,” MAKES HIM HUNGRY Good to know how Ecusta is standing in production of war goods—says Cpl. John H. Jackson. Now that I have read about every line and looked at every picture, I want to thank you for the Echo. . . . Boy, oh boy, those pictures and write-up about the cafeteria sure make an old former employ* ee hungry—after this C-ration, canned, and dehydrated foods Anyway, we’ll eat them for a bet ter day ahead . . . They are flying hi, today. I hear ’em and see ’em yes, and serve ’em.” FRENCH GLAD TO SEE YANKS “And they had a good right to be,” writes Sgt. Lee E. Reid. He “wouldn’t say he liked France— rain and mud all the time ... I enjoy the Echo quite a bit; at least I know some of the tblTigs that are going on, and the where abouts of quite a few of the boys.” ENJOYS READING ECHO Eddie T. Moss, S 1-e, colored, is at Earle, N. J., and expecting to be shipped out soon. He says that all the boys look forward to the Echo each month. Asks, “How are Arthur and the station wagons get ting on?” Also, “I am sure that Ecusta employees are doing their bit to get this war over.” I'
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