Laurel outlook., 1944-01-05
Letters From
Our Boys

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Thanksgiving? We had a fine din
ner.
l went to church Sunday evening.
1t was a beautiful church and the
sermon was by al army chaplain.
1 saw Bill Davis here; met him
and Russell Kurk at a swimming
place. Bill was swimming, and Rus
sell yelled his name and called my
name and Bill almost drowned try
ing to get to me.
We have shows here and all the
radio programs, including the news.
PFC. G. E. Sigsworth, Camp
Beale, Calf, Dec. &c:
l think it is time l wrote a few
lines to the home paper.
1 am in the post military police at
Camp Beale, and like my work.
When 1 entered the service Is
months ago l was sent to Fort
Douglas and a week later to Camp
Williston, New, where l received
basic training. l finished the day
before Thanksgiving, 1912 and was
put in line duty. We guarded the
Boulder dam, a rugged job, were
later relieved and sent to a Japan
csc interment camp in California
where there was some trouble.
After two weeks we went back to
Camp Williston, and the old camp
looked good to all of US. Last April
a bunch of us were shipped out
here to Camp Beale, which is a
much larger camp than Williston.
We were doing interior guard when
| was put on a gate job. l like
this job very well.
| know the M. P.s have a bad
name, but l have been on town
patrol and train detail and I have
never had much trouble. Once in a
while we have a little, but not very
often. We have a good bunch of
boys in the company l am with now.
l want to wish all the boys in
the service a very happy New Year,
and the same for the folks at home.
Public relations office, Harrington,
Tex, air field:
Another class of aerial trigger
men to guard army air force bomb
ers was graduated this week from
the Harrington army air field, aerial
gunnery school of the AAF training
command, and among the qualified
"sharpshooters of the sky" was Jay
w. Sheets of Laurel, Mont.
Along with his diploma he receiv-
ed a pair of aerial gunner's wings
and a promotion in grade at brief
graduation exercises held here.
After a delay en- route to visit rela-
tives, he will join an aerial combat
team, unless retained at Harlingen
to serve as a gunnery instructor.
He was prepared for his place in
Americas stepped-up air offensive
by a comprehensive six weeks
course in every phase of aerial gun
merry warfare. Besides learning to
fire every type weapon from camera
guns to the deadly 50-caliber
he studied turret manip-
aircraft identification and
learned to tear down and assemble
machine guns while blindfolded. He
climaXed the course by firing on
towed targets from Texan training
medium bombers and Liber-
:
Sgt. Donald Scheidecker, some /:
where in India, Dec. IT: :
You and the people of Laurel :
lave been sending me the home :
paper for so long that l finally got :
he idea | should retaliate. SO here :
5 n of our papers and hope it :
PRODUCES some laughs and is of :
interest. We are proud of the :
'aper here and of course we like it :
letter than any Indian paper. :
| have the Aug. 25 issue of the :
Outlook, the last l have received to :
late. There may be no more papers :
Until after the Christmas rush. How :
yer, they will be new to me when :
yer they get here. | received the :
with Bob Rangers letter in =
t and was glad to know he endors- =
d my feeble attempt to express nv z
hanks to the class. He did a much e
etter and more complete job, and =
ny hat is off to him. =
When 1 get home l will come in r
nd thank you personally, but until =
hat time this will have to suffice. =
ope this will in some measure =
how my appreciation to you and=
ne people who make it possible e
Or the Outlook to go to the bows =
nd girls in the service. Keep up e
ne good work. e
(Note: Sergeant Scheidecker en- e
losed a copy of the c.. B. I. =
oundup, dated Friday, Nov. 10. e
elhi. 1t is a five-column tabloid =
IL pages, is a a weekly and is e
lblished by and for the men of =
U. S. army forces in China. e
and India. News and Dic- z
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