Letter: 4 Jun 1943
Title
Letter: 4 Jun 1943
Description
P.F.C. R.O. SULLIVAN
3457TH ORD. A. M. CO.
PHOENIX, ARIZONA
1 PHOENIX ARIZ. JUN 5 1943 330 PM [Stamped in black on top-center of envelope]
FREE
[S]TAMPS BUY WAR SAVINGS BONDS AND STAMPS [Stamped in black on top-right of envelope]
Mrs. D.O. Sullivan
2152 Senator St.
Mobile, Alabama.
__
June. 4 - 1943
Dear Mama –
I hope this finds you happy and feeling fine. I am feeling fine but we have really been hustling trying to get things packed and shipped. If we keep on we will probably pull out of here around June 15th. I am stretched out on my bunk writing so you might not be able to read it. I just got a long letter from you and I was sure glad to get it. You asked me what I did, well I issue parts from about 7:30 A.M. until 4:30 P.M. and then I am through unless we have a rush like we have just been having.
A lot of times when our outfit runs out of drivers one of us parts men have to drive. There is always a scramble for this job as everyone likes to make the trips. Mama, we didn’t go to Miss. We just [illegible] them over into New Mexico and put them on troop trains. I just looked on the bulletin board and I see where I am picked as parts man for a three day trip to Yuma and Ajo, Mexico Monday. I want to make this trip and maybe I can find you a present down there.
I had bad luck yesterday, we had same visiting soldiers here and when they left $1500 and all my shaving equipment went missing. In all about five men in our barracks came up short and three of them are married. Most of our company is on a big convoy this week and I doubt if there is forty men left in camp. Don’t ever worry about me working hard because there isn’t that much work in the army.
One[Once] in awhile we do a little heavy work but we never hurt ourselves. Mama, we are furnished five suits of underwear, sacks and handkerchiefs but in this weather they don’t last long. I don’t have to do any washing as we pay for our laundry but once in awhile the laundry is late so I do a little of my own.
If you could see me, which I hope you will soon, you wouldn’t think I did any work & I am a pretty big fellow from all accounts. When we finally get straightened out maybe I’ll have a chance to write everyone, but tell them all to write as I like to get letters and papers. Mom, Ill[I’ll] close for now with,
Lots & lots of love & kisses
Bill
3457TH ORD. A. M. CO.
PHOENIX, ARIZONA
1 PHOENIX ARIZ. JUN 5 1943 330 PM [Stamped in black on top-center of envelope]
FREE
[S]TAMPS BUY WAR SAVINGS BONDS AND STAMPS [Stamped in black on top-right of envelope]
Mrs. D.O. Sullivan
2152 Senator St.
Mobile, Alabama.
__
June. 4 - 1943
Dear Mama –
I hope this finds you happy and feeling fine. I am feeling fine but we have really been hustling trying to get things packed and shipped. If we keep on we will probably pull out of here around June 15th. I am stretched out on my bunk writing so you might not be able to read it. I just got a long letter from you and I was sure glad to get it. You asked me what I did, well I issue parts from about 7:30 A.M. until 4:30 P.M. and then I am through unless we have a rush like we have just been having.
A lot of times when our outfit runs out of drivers one of us parts men have to drive. There is always a scramble for this job as everyone likes to make the trips. Mama, we didn’t go to Miss. We just [illegible] them over into New Mexico and put them on troop trains. I just looked on the bulletin board and I see where I am picked as parts man for a three day trip to Yuma and Ajo, Mexico Monday. I want to make this trip and maybe I can find you a present down there.
I had bad luck yesterday, we had same visiting soldiers here and when they left $1500 and all my shaving equipment went missing. In all about five men in our barracks came up short and three of them are married. Most of our company is on a big convoy this week and I doubt if there is forty men left in camp. Don’t ever worry about me working hard because there isn’t that much work in the army.
One[Once] in awhile we do a little heavy work but we never hurt ourselves. Mama, we are furnished five suits of underwear, sacks and handkerchiefs but in this weather they don’t last long. I don’t have to do any washing as we pay for our laundry but once in awhile the laundry is late so I do a little of my own.
If you could see me, which I hope you will soon, you wouldn’t think I did any work & I am a pretty big fellow from all accounts. When we finally get straightened out maybe I’ll have a chance to write everyone, but tell them all to write as I like to get letters and papers. Mom, Ill[I’ll] close for now with,
Lots & lots of love & kisses
Bill
Creator
Ruse Sullivan
Publisher
Mobile Public Library, Local History & Genealogy Division
Date
4 Jun 1943
Type
Correspondence
Identifier
War-Letters-4Jun1943
Original Format
Paper
Files
Citation
Ruse Sullivan, “Letter: 4 Jun 1943,” Mobile Public Library Digital Collections, accessed March 7, 2026, https://digital.mobilepubliclibrary.org/items/show/5747.