Letter: 10 Sept 1943
Title
Letter: 10 Sept 1943
Description
P.F.C. R.O. SULLIVAN
3457 ORD. A.M. CO.
CAMP LOCKETT, CALIF.
CAMP LOCKETT CALIF. SEP 11 1943 5 PM [Stamped in black on top-right of envelope]
FREE
[A partial stamp, printed in black, with lines and a “1”]
Mrs. D.O. Sullivan
2152 Senator St.
Mobile, Alabama
USO UNITED SERVICES ORGANIZATIONS [Stamped in blue on top-center on back of envelope]
MONTGOMERY ALA. SEP 15 1943 130 AM [Stamped in black on bottom-center on back of envelope]
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9-10-43
Dear Mama –
I know you are anxious to hear from me and I would have written sooner but I have really been on the move since I got back. I had an awful tiresome trip back and I felt awful blue for a few days when I had time to think. Two of us were transferred to this camp and got here yesterday afternoon after driving about sixteen hours. Well, I thought that I had been in some high mountains until I came down here. Sometimes it seemed like we were driving in the clouds and this camp is in a valley high up in the mountains. It is a beautiful place and at
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night it is darn near freezing cold. We are two miles from the Mexican border and about sixty miles from San Diego. It was sure good to get here and see some of my old friends that have been down here a pretty good while. Some of the men I know are getting out with On. D’s now and some time I think I will get another exam. I haven’t got my pay yet so I guess I will have to wait until the first of the month. There is lots of talk of this company splitting up and if it does I will probably go up to Los Angeles. Down here the closest town is 28 miles from camp and it is a small
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place. One of the boys and myself just went to a show tonight so I feel some better now. It is getting late so I will have to close until tomorrow.
Goodnight
Lots & lots of love & kisses
Bill
3457 ORD. A.M. CO.
CAMP LOCKETT, CALIF.
CAMP LOCKETT CALIF. SEP 11 1943 5 PM [Stamped in black on top-right of envelope]
FREE
[A partial stamp, printed in black, with lines and a “1”]
Mrs. D.O. Sullivan
2152 Senator St.
Mobile, Alabama
USO UNITED SERVICES ORGANIZATIONS [Stamped in blue on top-center on back of envelope]
MONTGOMERY ALA. SEP 15 1943 130 AM [Stamped in black on bottom-center on back of envelope]
__
9-10-43
Dear Mama –
I know you are anxious to hear from me and I would have written sooner but I have really been on the move since I got back. I had an awful tiresome trip back and I felt awful blue for a few days when I had time to think. Two of us were transferred to this camp and got here yesterday afternoon after driving about sixteen hours. Well, I thought that I had been in some high mountains until I came down here. Sometimes it seemed like we were driving in the clouds and this camp is in a valley high up in the mountains. It is a beautiful place and at
(2)[Page 2]
night it is darn near freezing cold. We are two miles from the Mexican border and about sixty miles from San Diego. It was sure good to get here and see some of my old friends that have been down here a pretty good while. Some of the men I know are getting out with On. D’s now and some time I think I will get another exam. I haven’t got my pay yet so I guess I will have to wait until the first of the month. There is lots of talk of this company splitting up and if it does I will probably go up to Los Angeles. Down here the closest town is 28 miles from camp and it is a small
(3)[Page 3]
place. One of the boys and myself just went to a show tonight so I feel some better now. It is getting late so I will have to close until tomorrow.
Goodnight
Lots & lots of love & kisses
Bill
Creator
Ruse Sullivan
Publisher
Mobile Public Library, Local History & Genealogy Division
Date
10 Sept 1943
Type
Correspondence
Identifier
War-Letters-10Sept1943
Original Format
paper
Files
Citation
Ruse Sullivan, “Letter: 10 Sept 1943,” Mobile Public Library Digital Collections, accessed March 6, 2026, https://digital.mobilepubliclibrary.org/items/show/5762.