Letter: 3 Aug 1943
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Letter: 3 Aug 1943
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FROM [Printed in blue in top-left corner of envelope]
P.F.C. R.O. SULLIVAN
3457th ORD. M. A. M. CO. DET.
RANDOLPH PARK
TUCSON, ARIZONA
TUCSON ARIZ. AUG 4 1943 11 AM [Stamped in black on top-center of envelope]
FREE
Mrs. D.O. Sullivan
2152 Senator St.
Mobile, Alabama
USO UNITED SERVICES ORGANIZATIONS [Stamped in blue on top-center of back of envelope]
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Aug 3 - 1943
Dear Mama –
Just a few lines to let you know that I am feeling fine and hope you are the same. This the first time in days that we haven’t had a storm but it still isn’t too late yet. I am going to work awhile tonight and haul some sand to fill up some of these mud holes around here. Well, Sunday night we had plenty of excitement around this place. Back of our barracks about 150 yds. there is a negro stockade and three of them broke out about 9 P.M.. We didn’t know anything about it until we were coming from the ball game and everyone we passed was wearing a helmet, rifle belt, and carrying a rifle. This went on for
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about two hours and they caught all three of them just walking around town. Mama, the clouds have been lower than the mountains for about a week and this is sure a pretty but lonesome sight. Ola could never stay out here as some of these nights are nearly like winter back home.
One of my friends from Ireland got a wire today that his aunt is dead in Pittsburgh and he is leaving tonight by plane and will be there in about eighteen hours. The planes are so thick out here that sometimes we have to sit right by the radio in order to hear it. If we get off tomorrow afternoon, which we usually do, I think I will go over to the country club and go swimming.
Mama, we have a Jew is our barracks that owns a big shoe store back in Virginia and he treats me like a long lost brother. I had a nice letter from Uncle Doc and I sure enjoyed reading it and the first chance I get I will answer it. There is a boy sleeping next to me from Mississippi and he told me that he just had to go on furlough when I did so he wouldn’t get lost so I guess I will probably have company to New Orleans. Well, I have to close now and do some work, so,
Goodnight
Lots & lots of love & kisses
Bill
P.F.C. R.O. SULLIVAN
3457th ORD. M. A. M. CO. DET.
RANDOLPH PARK
TUCSON, ARIZONA
TUCSON ARIZ. AUG 4 1943 11 AM [Stamped in black on top-center of envelope]
FREE
Mrs. D.O. Sullivan
2152 Senator St.
Mobile, Alabama
USO UNITED SERVICES ORGANIZATIONS [Stamped in blue on top-center of back of envelope]
__
Aug 3 - 1943
Dear Mama –
Just a few lines to let you know that I am feeling fine and hope you are the same. This the first time in days that we haven’t had a storm but it still isn’t too late yet. I am going to work awhile tonight and haul some sand to fill up some of these mud holes around here. Well, Sunday night we had plenty of excitement around this place. Back of our barracks about 150 yds. there is a negro stockade and three of them broke out about 9 P.M.. We didn’t know anything about it until we were coming from the ball game and everyone we passed was wearing a helmet, rifle belt, and carrying a rifle. This went on for
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about two hours and they caught all three of them just walking around town. Mama, the clouds have been lower than the mountains for about a week and this is sure a pretty but lonesome sight. Ola could never stay out here as some of these nights are nearly like winter back home.
One of my friends from Ireland got a wire today that his aunt is dead in Pittsburgh and he is leaving tonight by plane and will be there in about eighteen hours. The planes are so thick out here that sometimes we have to sit right by the radio in order to hear it. If we get off tomorrow afternoon, which we usually do, I think I will go over to the country club and go swimming.
Mama, we have a Jew is our barracks that owns a big shoe store back in Virginia and he treats me like a long lost brother. I had a nice letter from Uncle Doc and I sure enjoyed reading it and the first chance I get I will answer it. There is a boy sleeping next to me from Mississippi and he told me that he just had to go on furlough when I did so he wouldn’t get lost so I guess I will probably have company to New Orleans. Well, I have to close now and do some work, so,
Goodnight
Lots & lots of love & kisses
Bill
Creator
Ruse Sullivan
Publisher
Mobile Public Library, Local History & Genealogy Division
Date
3 Aug 1943
Type
Correspondence
Identifier
War-Letters-3Aug1943
Original Format
paper
Files
Citation
Ruse Sullivan, “Letter: 3 Aug 1943,” Mobile Public Library Digital Collections, accessed March 7, 2026, https://digital.mobilepubliclibrary.org/items/show/5758.