by Leonard J. Nevis to his brother Arnold H.
Nevis
March 1943 - October 1945
[envelope]
AIRMAIL
Arnold Nevis
Calif. Inst. of Tech.
Dabney House
Pasadena, Calif.
[postmarked]
CAMP DAVIS
MAR 28
1943
N.C.
[March 27, 1943]
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top]
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time
Dear Arnold,
How are you bud? What a life - we only
have to work seventeen hours a day for fifty
dollars
a month and room and board. I have a cozy little
room that I share with twenty eight other
guys.
I am on the second floor of a nice white
two-roomed
bungalow - oh! pardon me we have a latrine and
trunk room - that makes four rooms for about
sixty
men. We have eight wash basins, four showers,
five toilets and one wash tub. We can crowd
eight men in the showers, sixteen can shave at
one
time and three can use the wash tub together, but
as yet we haven't figured out a way for more than five
men to sit on the five toilets at one time. The
room service is rather poor here, so we have to
do some of the work ourselves, - this
afternoon,
which is marked free time on the schedule, we scrubbed
the barracks inside, and then we even scrubbed
the
outsides - I'm not kidding. Tomorrow so we
were informed - we will scrub them again -
only this time we are to get them clean,
immaculate,
spotless, super perfect.
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[March 27, 1943, page 2]
The weather here at Camp Davis Country Club is
one of the outstanding attractions. The other day the
sun was shining, it was snowing, and it blowing
sand - in fact they claim that this is the only place
in the world - you can be up to your ass in mud and have
sand blowing in your face. We had nice weather
last
week for our physical recreation - calesthenics - tumbling
-
obstacle course - cross country hikes.
Well anyway I am learning or should I
say "broadening" my education - for one thing I found that
I can wear my leather slippers to reville and never be
noticed (the're quicker to put on thant G.I. shoes)
because
it is so dark here at 6:00 AM. Although I
sometimes
have to struggle to get into formation in time - I
am always in plenty of time for mess. Also I
am learning the names and methods of shoe shining
to
the utmost technical degree. Tell Flavell to write -
I will write him soon. My address:
Candidate L. J. Nevis,
AA school
30th Battery 1st Platoon
Camp Davis, N.C. [<== arrow] 30th
battery, 1st Platoon
Camp Davis, N.C.
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Love
Leonard
you may
show
Flavell this
letter
write soon
