Folders 21-30: 15 November 1943-21 November 1943, 1, 3
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On yeoman duty for 8 ½ hours but didn’t have more than 15 minutes work. Isn’t allowed to use typewriter to write personal letters during work hours. Laundry must be hung properly—whites on the whites line and blues and other colored items on the blues line; explosion in Yorktown on the 16th. Men chop wood for fuel. Most men have more to offer the war effort than his “less brawny and less combat or-construction skilled brains have to give.” Jobs are frequently shifted; lawyers doing mosquito control, insurance work, and lecturing. Would like time to read and listen to music; reads L’il Abner comic strip. Peary is the only boot camp for Seabees in the country. Some Chief Petty Officers aren’t too bright. HR is reading ”The Psychology of the Fighting Man.” Unlike sailors, soldiers can send clothes to a laundry. His promotion to S2C is a “big event.”
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