From: Pvt. Geo. F. Gleasure 7709, Co A. 15th Bn. 1st Platoon. Camp Wheeler. Macon, GA.
To: Frank Gleasure, 56 Gardner Street, Allston Mass. (Boston)
Dear Pa.-
Thought I'd write and see if everything is okay back home, I've been waiting for a letter from home but as yet none has arrived so I decided to write anyway. How's the weather up there, cold? It's still just like July & August here, hot as blazes. Did you check on the stuff in the storeroom yet? As for those tools just forget about them because if Jimmy hasn't the time to take care of them I'll take my chances on a furlough when we get shipped from here to get them myself. We will only be here for about two more weeks then we move out to some other camp. (North I hope) I had a talk with the Commanding officer the other day & I'm due to go before a medical board sometime this week for a reclassification Martha met one of the officers from this camp up in boston & when he got back here he had me called into the office & we had a talk about my physical condition & as a result I'm to appear before this board. His name is Lt. J.C. Leone. she met him in some restaurant up there, he said he would have spoken to you when he was at the house but you were at work. So I'll write & let you know the outcome as soon as you get it. Well this is all for the present so will close for now.
Luck George.
Monday, March 25, 2013
Friday, March 22, 2013
October 23, 1942
From: Pvt. Geo. Gleasure 7709, Co A. 15th Bn. 1st Platoon, Camp Wheeler, Macon, GA.
To: Frank Gleasure, 56 Gardner Street. Allston, Mass. (Boston)
Dear Pa.-
Received your letter this evening when I got in from a long march so I'm taking this time to answer as later on there may be work to do. The only thing to do about those tools is to leave them there because you can't carry them as they are too heavy & too many & I'll take care of it myself as I probably will get a furlough before we are sent anyplace. There is an empty space in the store room between the trunk and the box because I removed about 8 or 9 gallons of paint from there & you did not leave any trunk at Royal Street, that one thats in the store room now is the one that was in the cellar at Royal St. You can check up and see if all of the oil burner is there, there should be one stand, one can, the valve, & two burners, there may be some copper tubeing there also but I doubt it, I think I used it on a job. Well I think I'll close now because I'm tired after that march today & it was pretty hot too.
Luck
George
To: Frank Gleasure, 56 Gardner Street. Allston, Mass. (Boston)
Dear Pa.-
Received your letter this evening when I got in from a long march so I'm taking this time to answer as later on there may be work to do. The only thing to do about those tools is to leave them there because you can't carry them as they are too heavy & too many & I'll take care of it myself as I probably will get a furlough before we are sent anyplace. There is an empty space in the store room between the trunk and the box because I removed about 8 or 9 gallons of paint from there & you did not leave any trunk at Royal Street, that one thats in the store room now is the one that was in the cellar at Royal St. You can check up and see if all of the oil burner is there, there should be one stand, one can, the valve, & two burners, there may be some copper tubeing there also but I doubt it, I think I used it on a job. Well I think I'll close now because I'm tired after that march today & it was pretty hot too.
Luck
George
Thursday, March 21, 2013
October 17, 1942
From: Pvt. Geo. Gleasure 7709, CoA. 15th Bn. 1st Platoon, Camp Wheeler. Macon, GA
To: Frank Gleasure, 56 Gardner Street, Allston, Mass. (Boston)
Dear Pa.
Got your letter at noon today, it has been quite some time since I last heard from any body back there that I wrote last nite to find out if everything was alright up there. Yes we have an officers training school here but it is hard to get into because you have to pass a pretty stiff test and so far quite a few have been rejected so far. David O'Malley from parsons street is here in camp with me and he has a pretty good education & he was rejected also. He was telling me yesterday that Joe Dalon is getting married. That Kelly you mentioned used to live in Allston once you know his father he was that drunken brakeman I think his name is George Kelly the last I heard of him he was in a cancer hospital. Well there isn't much to write about so will close for now. My gums are getting pretty hard now because I've been eating course heavy food and I have to wait my turn for teeth because there are about eighteen thousand besides myself. K.P. is part of every mans duty we all get it but don't like it.
Best Wishes
George
To: Frank Gleasure, 56 Gardner Street, Allston, Mass. (Boston)
Dear Pa.
Got your letter at noon today, it has been quite some time since I last heard from any body back there that I wrote last nite to find out if everything was alright up there. Yes we have an officers training school here but it is hard to get into because you have to pass a pretty stiff test and so far quite a few have been rejected so far. David O'Malley from parsons street is here in camp with me and he has a pretty good education & he was rejected also. He was telling me yesterday that Joe Dalon is getting married. That Kelly you mentioned used to live in Allston once you know his father he was that drunken brakeman I think his name is George Kelly the last I heard of him he was in a cancer hospital. Well there isn't much to write about so will close for now. My gums are getting pretty hard now because I've been eating course heavy food and I have to wait my turn for teeth because there are about eighteen thousand besides myself. K.P. is part of every mans duty we all get it but don't like it.
Best Wishes
George
Wednesday, March 20, 2013
October 15, 1942
From: Pvt. Geo. F. Gleasure 7709, CoA. 15th Bn. 1st Platoon., Camp Wheeler. Macon, GA.
To: Frank Gleasure, 56 Gardner Street. Allston Mass. (Boston)
Dear Pa.-
I received word the other day that Jimmy goes up for his exam on friday and what I want to find out is if he went to get those tools I told him to get. He's the only one there who knows where to go & Id like to have him get a car & bring them home before he goes away. Have you written any letters lately? because if you did I haven't been getting them, I haven't received any mail at all for over a week & a half now so I was wondering if there is any stoppage anywhere quite a few of the boys are complaining that they didn't get mail that they should have. I just got in from sentry duty a little while ago & I'm glad that's over, that rifle is pretty heavy when you carry it on your shoulder for two hours it weighs about twelve pounds with the bayonet & bullets. Well it's still very hot here & we feel it on the long marches. The real test is coming next week when we get twenty mile night hikes, if I can stand up under that, I can stand anything. Must close now as it's 11:30 and I have to clean that rifle and get to bed.
George
Tell the others to write
To: Frank Gleasure, 56 Gardner Street. Allston Mass. (Boston)
Dear Pa.-
I received word the other day that Jimmy goes up for his exam on friday and what I want to find out is if he went to get those tools I told him to get. He's the only one there who knows where to go & Id like to have him get a car & bring them home before he goes away. Have you written any letters lately? because if you did I haven't been getting them, I haven't received any mail at all for over a week & a half now so I was wondering if there is any stoppage anywhere quite a few of the boys are complaining that they didn't get mail that they should have. I just got in from sentry duty a little while ago & I'm glad that's over, that rifle is pretty heavy when you carry it on your shoulder for two hours it weighs about twelve pounds with the bayonet & bullets. Well it's still very hot here & we feel it on the long marches. The real test is coming next week when we get twenty mile night hikes, if I can stand up under that, I can stand anything. Must close now as it's 11:30 and I have to clean that rifle and get to bed.
George
Tell the others to write
Tuesday, March 19, 2013
October 8, 1942
From: Pvt. Geo F Gleasure 7709, Co A. 15th Bn. 1st Platoon, Camp Wheeler, Macon, GA
To: Frank Gleasure, 56 Gardner Street, Allston Mass. (Boston)
Dear Pa.-
I received your letter this evening when I got back from work, they had me on kitchen police for two days now & I still have one more to go. They pay you $50 per month and you earn every cent of it too. That k.p. is a killer you have thirteen & one half hours a day for three days & the start in by getting you out of bed at 4.30 am. it seems that you no sooner shut your eyes when some monkey is yelling "fall out." I figured that sooner or later somebody would clamp down on that draft board, its about time somebody did & I hope they put some of those rats in a camp like this one. Yes I got the letter from Madeline & also a card but where did they get that name they hung on the kid? If you can't get an iron let it go Ill get by with out it. Did Jimmy make out alright in the Masons? I'll never get used to the heat down here because it doesn't seem natural for it to be hot this time of the year. Well this is about all the news there is from this end so I'll close now as I get up at four thirty in the morning.
Luck
George
To: Frank Gleasure, 56 Gardner Street, Allston Mass. (Boston)
Dear Pa.-
I received your letter this evening when I got back from work, they had me on kitchen police for two days now & I still have one more to go. They pay you $50 per month and you earn every cent of it too. That k.p. is a killer you have thirteen & one half hours a day for three days & the start in by getting you out of bed at 4.30 am. it seems that you no sooner shut your eyes when some monkey is yelling "fall out." I figured that sooner or later somebody would clamp down on that draft board, its about time somebody did & I hope they put some of those rats in a camp like this one. Yes I got the letter from Madeline & also a card but where did they get that name they hung on the kid? If you can't get an iron let it go Ill get by with out it. Did Jimmy make out alright in the Masons? I'll never get used to the heat down here because it doesn't seem natural for it to be hot this time of the year. Well this is about all the news there is from this end so I'll close now as I get up at four thirty in the morning.
Luck
George
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