Letters To Home - May 5, 1951

Fort Benning, Georgia
May 5, 1951

Still very hot, with thunder storms now and then. Still playing lots of soft ball in the afternoons. Too hot for touch football.

Monday morning we're scheduled to have a Division Review for the Secretary of the Army; supposed to be televised on Vaughn Monroe's show. Movies will be made of it, too.

After the parade, "B" Battery is trucking out to the rest area for a big party. We all chipped in 50-cents; that should buy enough beer. The privates are going to challenge the non-coms to a soft ball game.

Watched the engineers loading our guns and trucks on flat cars. Amazing the amount of equipment the 44th has. Almost two miles of cars, and not done yet. Hope my request for train guard comes through.

We're getting our overseas shots now; typhus and yellow fever.

Told the folks to sell my old Dodge for what they can get. They'll hold the money until I get home.