MAIL CALL ! ! |
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Mail was a morale booster for each soldier and his family. For the servicemen mail was free. Known as "V" Mail "Uncle Sam" wanted to encourage the soldiers to keep in touch with their folks back home. Just write "Free" where the stamp would go.One commander, Capt. Frank J. Brundage, "C" Battery, 275th AFA Bn recounts a story of a mother of one of his men writing to him to ask about her son. When the young man was asked, if he had written her, he said "No, Sir." At that point Capt. Brundage gave the man a pencil, paper and envelope and told him that he could leave the Orderly Room when he had completed writing his mother a letter. |
Too often taken for granted the Battery Clerks were also the Mail Clerks. These men rendered invaluable service to the running of their batteries.Irving Rosen reminded us that, "There were really two Personnel Sections. One attached to Service Battery and one in Hq Battery. I don't think the one in Hq Battery was called Personnel, but they kept the Battle Diaries. Service Personnel among other things reported casualties and secured replacements. We also picked up the mail and delivered it to the Batteries. Someone then distributed it to the men. I remember at least a couple of times going into Liege, Belgium with a 6X6 and a driver named Matthews to pick up mail." |
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