Thank you for the packages from Bristol volunteers
A wave of grateful letters from soldiers expresses heartfelt thanks for gift packages from Bristol Community Y M C A and friends. Pfc Manuel Carrara Pvt Doninic Rodrigues and others acknowledge receipt at camps and hospitals, noting the support sustains them during duty and separation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bristol
Manuel Carrara
Army Engineers
c/o
San Francisco
Calif
Pvt
Doninic Rodrigues General Hospital
Longview, Texas
Soldiers recount artillery action and front-line dangers in Italy
Four soldiers describe directing and adjusting artillery fire against a German convoy and pillbox on a hill near Volturno. They detail seven direct hits on the pillbox, brief mortar shortages, and lingering fears of mines, shells, and 88 mm anti-tank weapons while awaiting a redeployment back to the front.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Roy
Bud
Vin
Thes’se
Jim
PSS Howitzger
Jerry
Harold Jsephieos
Wa Josephson
Pxt
Richard Clark
Detroit
Sth
Italy
Clark
5Th Army
Volturno
Rede Cross
Carl Carery
Shy
Letters From Servicemen Praise Bristol Christmas Gifts
Wartime readers thank Bristol citizens and manufacturers for sending care packages to service members stationed abroad including cadets at Newport Army and Sardinia. Messages express appreciation for the Bristol Buddies bundles and Christmas music from the Christel Budds Band, noting the help to morale and home remembrance during December 1943.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bristol
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Pasquale Parisi
Fleet Post Office
San Francisco, Calif
Arene Ss Dee
Y.m.ca
Pfc
Antone Medeiros,Jr
Camp Claiborne, la
Elias Moyayzel Carep
Wheeler
Thes
Beadequarters
Powoud Dik
Sineerely Vous
Walter Yo Paets
Newport Army
Predd Newport
Saeerets
Serdang Jas Myeer Charset Peent
Corist Mist
Cristel Budds Bandies
Tsui
Sardinia
Duiz
Hope-Street
Bingo Ag Tata
G. A. R. Hall
Hope At
BO Tenay
Hingo
Town OF
Bristol BR. L
Memorial Hall
Burnside Memorial
Briday
E. W.T
Board of Assessors
Amos S. Gorham
Intoxicating Beverage License
R. I
Martin M. Mansi
Thames Street
Burnside Memorial Building
John W Church
Bradford St
Perles
Waterbury’s
Fletcher’s Castoria
California
Vick
Phillips
Magnesia
Colgate
W.ar
Kelley's
Leet
Critom
Frank Cavallaro
Antonetta Cavallaro
Guardian
Mary Wilson
John W. Church
Anthony Principe
Edward M. Meiggs
S. Lillian Meiggs
Edward M. Y.meiges
Joseph
Sansone
Sérea
Seraga Batts
Hea Ma
Robert J. McKay
G. W. Simmons
Willam Street
ICTOR
Sewing Machine CO
Waren
Singer Sewing Machine Co
South Main*Street
Fall River
Charles M. Connery Funeral Home
TEL
Burton ST
Joseph Servant & Son Carpenters
Church ST
Wallace Motors Warren
Warren Te
J. E. Connors Funeral Home, Inc
Hope Street
Van’s
Wood Street
Cooper’s
Salvador Nunes
Mt. Hope
Ave. Tel
Dorchester
Boston
L. Watron Co., Inc
George M. Wilbur & Sons CO
Main
Warren
Constitution
Tel. Br
Bristol District Nursing Association
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