Letter: 20 Jul 1943
Title
Letter: 20 Jul 1943
Description
*1 MOBILE ALA. MAY 19 1944 830 PM [Stamped in black on top-center of envelope]
[Purple postage stamp located at top-right of envelope – shows a picture of an eagle in front of a circle of stars, with the caption "WIN THE WAR 3¢ 3¢ UNITED STATES POSTAGE"]
Mrs. Dollie Sullivan
57 S. Lawrence St
Mobile, Alabama
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July 20 - 1943
Dear Mama & Ola.
I hope both of you and Rich are well and doing fine as I am feeling good. This letter will serve both of you as I am short of paper and by the time I go down to the P.X. and buy some the lights will be off. It rained here for a couple of days and the weather has been pretty cool. The clouds were so low that they were below the mountain tops and that was one beautiful sight. You just can’t imagine the different sights you see until you live in the mountains for awhile but I am getting pretty tired of all that.
Mama, asked me about the girls out here, well, about 75% are mixed Spanish, pretty as a picture and mean as the devil. Another fellow and myself go around with a couple but we don’t get very serious with them. I am planning on a furlough pretty soon but the rumor got around today that some of us are going to the Presidio, San Francisco but I don’t know whether I will be one of them or not. After I get my furlough I would really like to be stationed out there. Sometimes I don’t think this outfit will ever get overseas so I would like to see as much of this country as I can. Somehow I have a feeling that before long we will probably be back on the east coast somewhere.
The people all over Arizona are really raising the devil about all these Jap. concentration camps out here. Well, if Gene gets in the air corps he will probably just about cover the southern part of the state. I take a drink so seldom that I have just about forgotten how it feels to have a hangover. I got the papers & gift yesterday and was sure glad although it made me a little homesick. Anna, asked me why I didn’t try to come home, well I have done everything now but write to F.D.R.
Well, I will close now hoping I get a furlough soon.
Goodnight
Lots & lots of love & kisses
Bill
[Purple postage stamp located at top-right of envelope – shows a picture of an eagle in front of a circle of stars, with the caption "WIN THE WAR 3¢ 3¢ UNITED STATES POSTAGE"]
Mrs. Dollie Sullivan
57 S. Lawrence St
Mobile, Alabama
__
July 20 - 1943
Dear Mama & Ola.
I hope both of you and Rich are well and doing fine as I am feeling good. This letter will serve both of you as I am short of paper and by the time I go down to the P.X. and buy some the lights will be off. It rained here for a couple of days and the weather has been pretty cool. The clouds were so low that they were below the mountain tops and that was one beautiful sight. You just can’t imagine the different sights you see until you live in the mountains for awhile but I am getting pretty tired of all that.
Mama, asked me about the girls out here, well, about 75% are mixed Spanish, pretty as a picture and mean as the devil. Another fellow and myself go around with a couple but we don’t get very serious with them. I am planning on a furlough pretty soon but the rumor got around today that some of us are going to the Presidio, San Francisco but I don’t know whether I will be one of them or not. After I get my furlough I would really like to be stationed out there. Sometimes I don’t think this outfit will ever get overseas so I would like to see as much of this country as I can. Somehow I have a feeling that before long we will probably be back on the east coast somewhere.
The people all over Arizona are really raising the devil about all these Jap. concentration camps out here. Well, if Gene gets in the air corps he will probably just about cover the southern part of the state. I take a drink so seldom that I have just about forgotten how it feels to have a hangover. I got the papers & gift yesterday and was sure glad although it made me a little homesick. Anna, asked me why I didn’t try to come home, well I have done everything now but write to F.D.R.
Well, I will close now hoping I get a furlough soon.
Goodnight
Lots & lots of love & kisses
Bill
Creator
Ruse Sullivan
Publisher
Mobile Public Library, Local History & Genealogy Division
Date
20 Jul 1943
Type
Correspondence
Identifier
War-Letters-20Jul1943
Original Format
paper
Files
Citation
Ruse Sullivan, “Letter: 20 Jul 1943,” Mobile Public Library Digital Collections, accessed March 7, 2026, https://digital.mobilepubliclibrary.org/items/show/5754.