Winsor War Notes-Luther Snow Winsor's WW II experiences

What do you do with thousands of service men all day-the army answer-set them to digging ditches!

Chow time instructions and line up. Those may be some wash stands out in the open too, with puddles around them and an extra layer of gravel laid down to keep the mud in check.  Marilu: This looks like a big camp set up to handle large numbers of troops to house and feed until the time comes to load them onto their ships. The mood must have been relaxed and elated as the wheels were now in motion for a return to civilian life and loved ones at home. According to a letter posted earlier in this blog, This was probably Camp Boston and Lu and many others were here for over a month waiting to move to an area to board a ship. Cliff Hope in his book talks about his returning home experience:"20 November: Then began a dismal, four-day ride in a truck convoy to the Calas Staging Area near Marseilles. The stops were few and far between. We arrived at the Calas staging area, a desolate-looking place....We were in unlighted, winterized tents. The 13 days we spent waiting were the u

 Marilu: Lu gave no notes or explanation of this series of photos or the events they represent, but they were at the end of the scrapbook and secured onto the page in a certain order, so we will have to speculate about what they might be. There are no dates, but this must have been late October. He put the train photos on first and the cars are labelled 'Allied Forces' which you wouldn't see in the US, and he places them before the camp and ship photos. My guess is that he and his group got their orders to ship out back home and were taken by train from where they were serving, possibly in Bensheim.

Oct 9, 1945 Lu My Dearest,  Darling, I hope you never receive this letter while you're overseas. It just made me sick when I received your Sept. 23 letter today. But surely by this time you're at least on the boat home. I'm so sorry now that I didn't keep on writing before.  I'm still apartment hunting darling but I'm definitely a pessimist now.  There just isn't anything. Oh, darling, I really don't care what we have to live in so long as we can be together and that's all that counts. Honestly darling I don't ever want to be out of reach again.  Oh I wish you could see Lynne dance! She jumps up and down on one foot and waves and taps the other, sometimes she tries tapping both, and her arms are going at the same time. It's so funny.  Amy and Henry are here on furlough. Henry expects a 45 day furlough when he gets back to Boise and They're coming back down to Salt Lake. If you're not home by that time, I believe