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!Win g I is thedonIn-aveec-tona-in108onion,in-ra-me,entilottin-bintry^entherhebyrseave:ec-‘2Sustrse,beiayist-inPage ThreeAPI Graduate Marine Officer Writes Impressions of IcelandFormer Plainsman Editor Edwin Godbold With Marines in Land of Midnight SunFirst hand impressions gained in Iceland by a young Alabama Marine officer are contained in a letter recently received by Miss Berta Dunn, secretary to President L. N. Duncan.An Auburn graduate, and former Editor of The Plainsman, Lt. Edwin C. Godbold, U. S. Marine Corps, wrote the letter, which was passed by the U. S. Censor on July 14.Godbold graduated here in 1939, applied and was accepted for entrance to the Marine Corps training school.There he received his commission in the Marine Corps, and upon completion of his training period, went on active duty.While at Auburn Godbold was a member of Omicron Delta Kappa, Scabbard and Blade, Spades, Phi Kappa Phi, the International Relations Club, Tau Kappa Alpha, and Theta Chi social fraternity.He has two brothers in Uncle Sam’s armed forces at the present time, one of whom, John, was Editor of the Plainsman the year following Edwin’s graduation. John is a 2nd. Lieutenant in the Field Artillery, and is stationed at Fort Bragg, N. C. An older brother, Captain B. D. Godbold, is stationed at present somewhere in the Pacific.The letter written by Lt. Godbold from Iceland is as follows: We arrived here on July 10 and moved from our troop transport to another ship, where our men lived until we had completed unloading the tons and tons of food, ammunition, equipment, clothing, automobiles, tents, lumber, baggage, and so on.We were able to lay the ship in alongside the dock and unload right onto the dock itself. For days both officers and men workezw/AJ C GoboJiVthis course are Charles Holmead Chichester, Jr., Birmingham; William Glenn Darby, Auburn; Leslie Ford Francis, Tuscaloosa; Don Kirk, Axis; John Shannon MacNaughton, Atlanta, Ga.; Hillman Glynn McGee, Centerville; Edward Manning Moody, Heflin; George Vicent Wendling, Birmingham; Louis Frank Woodruff, Montgomery.ed without stopping except for brief moments of sleep. The British troops and the natives congregated at the dock to watch us, and there was a crowd there all the time.The British have been most cooperative, furnishing us trucks and drivers and camp sites, and in every way doing their best to make us comfortable. They were amazed at the way we worked without stopping. . . . “Blimey, you blokes mean business, don’t you!” they’d say.And one bunch of British enlisted men whistled with amazement when I pitched in with a gang of my men and helped them load bags of cement till I was covered from head to foot with dust. I don’t think I ever made it clear to them that we weren’t short of labor, but that I was just having a good time. . . .While working at the dock, I roomed with Cooley in a luxurious stateroom on the ship and ate in the wardroom there. Unloading finished, our outfit moved to a camp some two and one-half miles out of town. We live in Nissen huts, a queer kind of prefabricated, easily erected structures made of tin, steel ribs, insulating material. . . it resembles a long igloo with flat ends. They are warm enough now, but I don’t know how we’ll make out when real winter comes.We have hot and cold water and electric lights, and are comfortable enough. The British left us 14 days’ supply of food, even down to the rum ration that they issue to their men. The camp is on the side of a hill, right in the midst of farm land where the natives work at harvesting the hay that seems to be such a big (Continued on Page 5)
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Auburn Plainsman
Auburn, Alabama, US
Fri, Aug 15, 1941
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