Letter: 14 Jul 1943 #2 (received 16 Jul 1943)
Title
Letter: 14 Jul 1943 #2 (received 16 Jul 1943)
Description
P.F.C. R.O. SULLIVAN
3457th ORD. MED. A. M. CO.
DETACHMENT
RANDOLPH PARK
TUCSON, ARIZONA
TUCSON ARIZ. JUL 16 1943 3 PM [Stamped in black on top-right of envelope]
FREE
Mrs. D.O. Sullivan
c/o V.S. Cain
Bayou La Batre, Alabama
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July 14 - 1943
Dear Mama –
Just a few lines to let you know that I am feeling fine and I hope you are the same. I had two letters from you yesterday and I was sure glad to get them. We aren’t doing much or going many places so there isn’t very much to write about. Some of our bunch went down into Mexico today but I have been so much that I didn’t care to take the trip. Mexico is something like New Orleans, about all there is to do is have a good time and that is one place to go to have one.
We take exercise and drill a little in the morning while it is cool and then go to work and just about spend the day sitting around shooting the bull. We quit work at 4:30 and either sleep or bathe or read until 5:30 when we go to eat. Lights aren’t turned out until 10 P.M. and it doesn’t get dark until around 9 P.M. There is a negro M.P. camp close to us and we have a lot of fun just watching them sing and dance. Two of them got into a fight with bayonets one night but were stopped before they could do much damage to each other.
Mama, tell Ola that every chance she gets to send me a paper as that is about all the news I can get out here. If I don’t have any thing to tonight I am going to look up Gene’s address and write him a few lines as it might make him feel better. I had a letter from my old lieutenant yesterday and if things dont go better here I think I will transfer to his outfit over in California. His car is in our camp and if I get a furlough soon I am going to drive it to his home in Galveston, Tex. With my expenses paid. This will be a nice drive and the only thing bad about it is that I will be by myself but I will also save time and money. We should be straightened out in a few days and I will let you know more about it. Mama, I will close for now, so
Goodnight
Lots & lots of love & kisses
Bill
3457th ORD. MED. A. M. CO.
DETACHMENT
RANDOLPH PARK
TUCSON, ARIZONA
TUCSON ARIZ. JUL 16 1943 3 PM [Stamped in black on top-right of envelope]
FREE
Mrs. D.O. Sullivan
c/o V.S. Cain
Bayou La Batre, Alabama
__
July 14 - 1943
Dear Mama –
Just a few lines to let you know that I am feeling fine and I hope you are the same. I had two letters from you yesterday and I was sure glad to get them. We aren’t doing much or going many places so there isn’t very much to write about. Some of our bunch went down into Mexico today but I have been so much that I didn’t care to take the trip. Mexico is something like New Orleans, about all there is to do is have a good time and that is one place to go to have one.
We take exercise and drill a little in the morning while it is cool and then go to work and just about spend the day sitting around shooting the bull. We quit work at 4:30 and either sleep or bathe or read until 5:30 when we go to eat. Lights aren’t turned out until 10 P.M. and it doesn’t get dark until around 9 P.M. There is a negro M.P. camp close to us and we have a lot of fun just watching them sing and dance. Two of them got into a fight with bayonets one night but were stopped before they could do much damage to each other.
Mama, tell Ola that every chance she gets to send me a paper as that is about all the news I can get out here. If I don’t have any thing to tonight I am going to look up Gene’s address and write him a few lines as it might make him feel better. I had a letter from my old lieutenant yesterday and if things dont go better here I think I will transfer to his outfit over in California. His car is in our camp and if I get a furlough soon I am going to drive it to his home in Galveston, Tex. With my expenses paid. This will be a nice drive and the only thing bad about it is that I will be by myself but I will also save time and money. We should be straightened out in a few days and I will let you know more about it. Mama, I will close for now, so
Goodnight
Lots & lots of love & kisses
Bill
Creator
Ruse Sullivan
Publisher
Mobile Public Library, Local History & Genealogy Division
Date
14 Jul 1943
Type
Correspondence
Identifier
War-Letters-14Jul1943-#2
Original Format
Paper
Files
Citation
Ruse Sullivan, “Letter: 14 Jul 1943 #2 (received 16 Jul 1943),” Mobile Public Library Digital Collections, accessed March 7, 2026, https://digital.mobilepubliclibrary.org/items/show/5752.