Letter: 18 Jul 1943
Title
Letter: 18 Jul 1943
Description
P.F.C. R.O. SULLIVAN
3457th ORD. MED. A. M. CO. DET.
RANDOLPH PARK
TUCSON, ARIZONA
FREE
TUCSON ARIZ. JUL 19 1943 11 AM [Stamped in black on top-center of envelope]
Mrs. D.O. Sullivan
c/o V.S. Cain
Bayou La Batre, Alabama
USO UNITED SERVICES ORGANIZATIONS [Stamped in blue on top-center on back of envelope]
__
July 18 - 1943
Dear Mama –
Just a few lines to let you know that I am feeling fine and hope you are the same. I was on guard Friday night and Saturday so when I got off last night went to the ball game. This is Sunday and besides laying around sleeping and eating there isn’t very much to do. I have just eaten supper and there is a ball game tonight so I will probably walk over there. I don’t go to town much as we have a nice P.X. swimming pool and ball park right here in the camp.
I haven’t had much mail lately but today I got the papers from home and just about wore them out reading them. We had a little rain last night and today and the weather is real nice and cool. I am sending your letters to Meg’s so I hope you are getting them. I was glad to see that letter from Art Smith because I never knew what had become of that bunch. Norma should meet him as he is one of the nicest boys that I have met in the army and he is also a nice looking boy.
I don’t know for sure but I think my furlough is coming up in a few weeks and I need every cent I can rake and scrape. Sometimes I get to thinking about it and it seems that I can hardy[hardly] wait to get home and see you. You be sure and take good care of yourself so when this war is over I will have someone to come home to.
Most of these fellows get nice letters from their brothers and then ask me if I ever hear from mine. This makes me feel like telling them sometime that I don’t even have a brother. Mama, you don’t have anything to make you stay at home so why don’t you stay down on the coast until you are well rested up. I guess Inez’s boys are just about big enough now to take me down.
I am having another one of my eating spells and eat enough to fill a horse. We have more peaches, cantaloups[cantaloupes] and watermelons than we can do away with. One of our men let a 45 pistol go off in his hand and it blowed the end of his thumb off, just missing two other men that were watching him.
Mama, if I don’t get my furlough by Aug. 1 I am going to transfer to headquarters in Camp Lockett, Calif. Down there they do everything to get you to take a furlough. The Lt. that wants me to take his car to Galveston sent me coupons for eighty gallons of gas and thirty dollars to pay for it, my eats and sleeping place but it will just about take all of that to get there. Mama, I will close for now, so,
Goodnight
Lots & lots of love & kisses
Bill
Tell everyone hello for me.
3457th ORD. MED. A. M. CO. DET.
RANDOLPH PARK
TUCSON, ARIZONA
FREE
TUCSON ARIZ. JUL 19 1943 11 AM [Stamped in black on top-center of envelope]
Mrs. D.O. Sullivan
c/o V.S. Cain
Bayou La Batre, Alabama
USO UNITED SERVICES ORGANIZATIONS [Stamped in blue on top-center on back of envelope]
__
July 18 - 1943
Dear Mama –
Just a few lines to let you know that I am feeling fine and hope you are the same. I was on guard Friday night and Saturday so when I got off last night went to the ball game. This is Sunday and besides laying around sleeping and eating there isn’t very much to do. I have just eaten supper and there is a ball game tonight so I will probably walk over there. I don’t go to town much as we have a nice P.X. swimming pool and ball park right here in the camp.
I haven’t had much mail lately but today I got the papers from home and just about wore them out reading them. We had a little rain last night and today and the weather is real nice and cool. I am sending your letters to Meg’s so I hope you are getting them. I was glad to see that letter from Art Smith because I never knew what had become of that bunch. Norma should meet him as he is one of the nicest boys that I have met in the army and he is also a nice looking boy.
I don’t know for sure but I think my furlough is coming up in a few weeks and I need every cent I can rake and scrape. Sometimes I get to thinking about it and it seems that I can hardy[hardly] wait to get home and see you. You be sure and take good care of yourself so when this war is over I will have someone to come home to.
Most of these fellows get nice letters from their brothers and then ask me if I ever hear from mine. This makes me feel like telling them sometime that I don’t even have a brother. Mama, you don’t have anything to make you stay at home so why don’t you stay down on the coast until you are well rested up. I guess Inez’s boys are just about big enough now to take me down.
I am having another one of my eating spells and eat enough to fill a horse. We have more peaches, cantaloups[cantaloupes] and watermelons than we can do away with. One of our men let a 45 pistol go off in his hand and it blowed the end of his thumb off, just missing two other men that were watching him.
Mama, if I don’t get my furlough by Aug. 1 I am going to transfer to headquarters in Camp Lockett, Calif. Down there they do everything to get you to take a furlough. The Lt. that wants me to take his car to Galveston sent me coupons for eighty gallons of gas and thirty dollars to pay for it, my eats and sleeping place but it will just about take all of that to get there. Mama, I will close for now, so,
Goodnight
Lots & lots of love & kisses
Bill
Tell everyone hello for me.
Creator
Ruse Sullivan
Publisher
Mobile Public Library, Local History & Genealogy Division
Date
18 Jul 1943
Type
Correspondence
Identifier
War-Letters-18Jul1943
Original Format
Paper
Files
Citation
Ruse Sullivan, “Letter: 18 Jul 1943,” Mobile Public Library Digital Collections, accessed March 7, 2026, https://digital.mobilepubliclibrary.org/items/show/5753.