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1 Dean Schultz is '‘Elsewhere,”Sergeant Dean Schultz who had been stationed in Hawaii since going over-1 seas* has been transferred to some-I where in the Southwest Pacific, according to word received by his parents, I Mr. and Mrs. Levi Schultz at Luana, to whom Dean writes under date of January 13 and 19 as follows:I “X don't have very much to write and haven’t had any mail as yet, so I don’t have any letters to answer. News is going to be a very scarce item here and if I ever thought it was scarce before, I really didn’t even have any ideas about it then. The incoming news is also at a minimum as we have [ no radios and no papers and none of us have any idea of what is going on outside. It is the first time I have ever been in a spot like this and it is quite a funny feeling alright. Perhaps later on we will have electricity and be able to use our radio, but right now the prospects don’t look very good.“It is quite a job running all of our machines by hand now, and none of us realized just what it would be to do without the good old electric current. We have managed to get our December payroll completed and paid and so far I think we have done very well along the finance lines.“This is a very hot, damp climate, and the uniform here is a pair of shorts and a pair of shoes. It seems funny to see everyone dressed that way, but it is the only practical and comfortable way to dress during the day.“We have a fairly dry tent and so far haven’t had a% wet bed or had our clothing soaked, but the way these clouds open up now and then you can never tell. I used to like camping out but I can see already that this is going to get old before it is over.“So far we have no fresh water for washing clothes or bathing and that is really a problem. We have to wash in the ocean and you can imagine what sort of a job you can do in that salt water. I never before realized there were so many small things in the every day life that we just take for granted, but I am finding out about a lot of them down here. Everyone is working very hard though and one of these days we should have a fairly comfortable place to live.
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Postville Herald
Postville, Iowa, US
Wed, Feb 02, 1944
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IA, USA 12 Aug 2020
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