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CENTRALIA SOLDIER * SAW NATION’S CHIEF 1 AT IRAN CONFERENCELife oversea* tan have 1 t * brighter aspects a* is testified by by Pvt Doan Hatfield, son of Mr. and Mrs Charles Hatfield,«f9 S Maple at. in letters to his parents and to hie sister, Porothy.Pvt Hatfield la with a military polite battalion in Tran and had the privilege of acting as a guard during the recent Pig Three'* eon* ferenc* at Teheran He says in a letter rerei%fed Pee. 28 “The President and all the other Mg shot* were here You have probably read ahout It I saw the President at 10 feet distance two or three times I also saw Pen Marshall, n I Arnold. Summei villa. Admiral King and Cook I was on guard at their quarter* and they all spoke to me, and were really nice men A copy of the United State* Army Dispatch, the Persian Oulf Service Command's weekly newspaper was enclosed In a letter to his parents, The paper vws devoted principally to President Roosevelt’s appearance there. According to It the overage soldier summed up the affair With these words *T have aeen hia face I’ve heard him speak I aaw of him smile Anything that happen* rh to me after this will b* small stuff’.Pvt. Hatfield spoke of hia en-Id* Joyment of meals containing fresh meat after having had n hirg but canned meat during hia year and ,,c* ' a half overseas. The newspaper nn* | rays Wien the O nerwl Staff sat *r,P down for Its first dinner the r’ V mess officer told General Marshall w that they were going to eat the nee firs* fresh meat served In the Pars-j |,,n r.ulf Service command. Th# first ship Jiut a rlvej ard the pre-,!ff* I clou* stuff was flown up to Teheran. Hald General Marshall, ian, very graciously, If this Is the ttce first meat to arrive here. T think try-j the men should have the privilege of eating it. Wr’II take Spam and hrend * They got It.The turkeys that failed to reach them lor Thanksgiving were e x-pected for Christmas, Pvt. Hateleuri e fiengdoftfrli-m*ic-weionamhen vie*intic 1 wrott.
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Centralia Evening Sentinel
Centralia, Illinois, US
Mon, Dec 27, 1943
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