The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1942-07-23
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dIS III Gllt SclFlCc. LII really Is d SICdG
moral builder and I hope it stays
fully as great in the future.
ST am now going to school here in
Alameda, California. We are being
taught how to keep our ships flying
so we may be able to do a job as we'll
as you have in the past. Our airplanes
must fly so we are being rushed in
our course of aviation machinists'
mates but We'll do our best. I'm
sure We'll come out on top.
"Let me thank you again for your
kindness and I hope it will be pos
sible for me to receive The Ely Miner
as long as I am in service"
Addresses: Pvt. B. j. Hutar, Plat.
391, Recruit Depot MOB, San Diego,
Calf. Pvt. Joe Mosnik, 1911 Madison
st. NV, Washington, D. c.
Attention: Pvt. Morris E. Peterson,
Case 1861, Camp Lockett, Calf. The
address of Pvt. Albert Pruse is Co. B,
seth ON Bn., Fort Ord, Calf.
$50
"There are more soldiers here"
writes Pvt. Nestor j. Niemela, Co. D.,
Goth Inf. TT. Bn., 3rd Plat, Camp
Roberts, Calf, than you can shake
stick at. The camp covers about
$4,000 acres. The boys in my bar
racks are all from southern Minnesota
and Texas. We all belong to a heavy
machine gun company. The weather is
either too hot or too cold. 1t would
be 127 in the shade, if there were
any shade"
In training at Temple, Texas, are
Pvts. Anton Roman and Walter G.
Suihkonen, the former in Co. B and
the latter in Co. G of the 772nd T.
D. Bn., First Tr Group Pvt. Mathew
Grahek is in HQ Bly,. 343rd Fla b.,
Camp Berkeley, Texas. Pvt. Louis j.
Palcher is at his old business of re-
pairing railroad engines at Key Field,
Miss.
FCP. Helmer NJ Lepisto and Pvt.
Frank j. Zaverl are in the same unit,
848th Sch. sgd, Sp., South Plains
Army Flying School, Lubbock, Texas.
FCP. Fred Kochevar, who is back at
Camp Blanding, Fla, 218th ON Corps,
after a furlough here says, "This
camp is so big that it would take over
a month to cover it. If there are any
other Ely fellows here, I hope they
will contact me.
"The weather here is hot, and
don't mean maybe. I'll take Ely to
Florida any day"
Pvt. Joe j. Micklech, Soudan, who
describes himself as a minnesota
forever" writes from Camp Edwards
Mass, as follows:
"Hello, Ely, and The Ely Miner
Just a letter from a Soudan soldier
boy. I used to read The Ely Miner
back at Camp Robinson, Ark, every
week. That's where We spent sever
weeks getting our basic training two
| of the Ely soldiers received TIL,
| Miner. One was Seraphine Rolandt
| and the other was Ollie Olson. Blu
now since we have been here a
Camp Edwards, which will be on
month next Friday, received fou
or five copies which Olson sent m
last night and I took couple o
hours off and read them through
Some of the articles are really good
so I cut them out and sent then
home.
"The weather here is swell, jus
| like at home; nice and cool or evel
cooler. 1 had two swims in the At
lantic ocean, and tomorrow I am go
| ing to have my third swim; also
will be three months tomorrow sine
1 left home and the gang left Ely.
Pvt. Steve Skradski, Co. G, lit
Bn. BI, 5th Rgt., Fort Mcclellan, Ala
says:
st would like to correspond with
someone in Ely, boys or girls alike. -
Like other Ely boys who are nc
accustomed to the heat of the Sout1
Skradsd says, cit is very hot, 80 t
100 in the shade. Haven't seen an
rain since I arrived. Getting-up tim
is $50 a. m. We live in tents, an
the camp has $4,000 soldiers. The cit
of Admission is four and half mile