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Vol. LII No. 2 Yuba City, California April 2010

Harry Huntington(photo courtesy of Community Memorial Museum)

OFFICERS OF THE SOCIETY

Audrey Breeding, President Sarah Pryor, Vice President

Phyllis Smith, Secretary/Treasurer

DIRECTORS

Joe Bouchard – 2009* Steve Perry - 1994

Audrey Breeding – 1997 Cynthia Pfiester - 2004

Constance Cary - 1987 Sarah Pryor - 2008

Bruce Harter - 1991 Margaret Pursch - 2002

Bob Mackensen - 2002 Vicki Rorke - 2009

Ruth Mikkelsen - 2009 Margit Sands - 2007

Leona Pennington - 2006 Phyllis Smith - 2000Janet Spilman - 2007

*The year the director joined the Board.

The Bulletin is published quarterly by the Historical Society in Yuba City, California.Editors are Phyllis Smith, Sharyl Simmons and Vicki Rorke. Payment of annualmembership dues provides you with a subscription to the Bulletin and the Museum’sMuse News and membership in both the Society and the Museum.

The 2010 dues are payable as of January 1, 2010. Mail your check to the CommunityMemorial Museum at 1333 Butte House Road, Yuba City, 95993-2301. 530-822-7141

Student (under 18)/ Senior Citizen/Library............................................. $ 20Individual .................................................................................... $ 25Organizations/Clubs ........................................................................ $ 35Family ........................................................................................ $ 40Business/Sponsor............................................................................ $ 100Corporate/Benefactor...................................................................... $1000

Sutter County Historical Society 1 April 2010News Bulletin

President’s Message

Spring has sprung and all is in bloom! Which means it’s time for our springmembership meeting. Please join us on Saturday April 24, 2010, at the RobbinsCommunity Hall for a lunch of deli sandwiches, fruit, dessert and drinks, all for $10.Our program will feature Janet Alonso, who will speak on the history of the Old SutterBasin. Also present will be our winners of the Judith Barr Fairbanks essay contest.Social time begins at 11:30 am, with lunch served at 12:00. Not only are themembership meetings a time to meet up with old friends, or make new ones, ourprograms provide us with many interesting and historical facts about the area we livein. Everyone is welcome, so please bring your friends and family.

Were you or your family Dust Bowl migrants into Sutter County? If so, wewould like to hear from you. The Historical Society is beginning a project to gatherstories and photos regarding the Dust Bowl era. Please contact SCHS board memberVicki Rorke at 916-852-8144 or email [email protected] for more information.

The SCHS Board has decided to begin a Century Farms project. To qualify as aCentury Farm, the farm must meet a number of criteria. The land must have beencontinuously owned within the same family for 100 or more years. The land musthave been in agricultural production or under first improvement for 100 or moreyears. The present owner must be related to a person who originally owned the land.The line of ownership from the original settler or buyer may be through children,brothers, sisters, nephews, and/or nieces. The present owner or a member of theowner’s family must actively manage the farm. The present farm must meet thecurrent USDA definition of a farm: A farm includes all land under one managementarrangement which has at least $1,000 worth of agricultural production or sales orexpenses, for production of agricultural products during the most recent calendaryear. There is no minimum acreage requirement. More information will be coming aswe move forward with recording the area’s Century Farms.

Did you miss buying Thompson and West’s History of Sutter County asChristmas gifts? Well, it may be too late for Christmas, but graduations are justaround the corner. This valuable, informative book describing Sutter County’s historyup to 1879, when the book was first published, is the perfect gift, a reminder ofhome, for that new graduate going off to college. Thompson and West is available atthe Museum for $45 plus tax. We’ll even mail it to someone you love for $60 total.

Audrey Breeding, President

In this IssueDirectors Report 2Memorials 3

History of Buttesin Your Hands

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Coming Events 4 Far From Home 6


Director’s Report

April is a busy time everywhere, and the Museum is no exception. It beginswith the Children’s Spring Vacation Program on Friday, April 9th at 10:30 a.m. We arepleased to present Aondreaa the Storytailor with new stories on the theme of “All YouCan Eat: Food Means Sharing.” Her performances are riveting for children andgrownups alike. The program is free and refreshments are included.

It’s time for the annual fundraiser Wear & Remembrance, that whimsicalparadise of fashions past! It is held this year at the Veterans’ Building on Saturday,April 17 and Sunday, April 18. Admission is $5 or $4 with a pink coupon from theMuseum. Everything, clothes for women, men and children, accessories, jewelry,textiles, shoes, and lots of etcetera, is all for sale as well as for gazing at inamazement. More than a century of styles provide ease of finding a unique outfit,and vintage clothing qualifies as very green too! Shop at your leisure and enjoy lunchwith Kaffe T’ Latta. No better way to spend the day and help out the Museum too.

Remember the local high school art exhibits: Yuba City High School throughApril 11, and River Valley High School from April 23 through May 14. In June, theMuseum will again host a traveling exhibit from CERA: Multiply by Six Million:California Holocaust Survivors through August 1.

Museum staff is working hard on the exhibits for the new Multi-Cultural Wing,as it is the goal for the wing to, at long last, be completed by year’s end.

There is a cloud of euphoria floating above the Museum right now, as the longproposed Meeting Room is becoming a reality. With gratitude for the generousbequest from Museum supporter Dorothy Ettl and to Sutter County for sharing theremaining portion of the California Proposition 40 Parks & Recreation funds andthanks to all who have worked so hard to launch the project, we are thrilled toannounce that the work of construction will soon begin. There is so much work to doto build the room itself, the parking lot, and the beautiful landscaped patio, buttogether we are equal to it. The reward will be a much-needed facility for theMuseum and the community.

Speaking of beautiful landscapes, did you see the vivid borders of over 300tulips that the Sutter Buttes Garden Club planted in front of the Museum? Theirbright colors were a wonder to see! Many thanks to the Garden Club members.

From a beautiful springtime, we look forward to a marvelous and successfulyear.

Julie StarkDirector

Sutter County Historical Society April 2010News Bulletin

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Memorials

In Memory of Sharon BaggettJoe & Rebecca Benatar

In Memory of Nora BarkhouseJoe & Rebecca Benatar

In Memory of Trini BidegainMr. & Mrs. Kenneth Calhoun

In Memory of William BravosConnie Cary

In Memory of Andy O. CarrSteven Richardson

In Memory of Homer “Hank” CumminsLee & Bob Jones

In Memory of Suzanne FillmoreD. Jane Miller

In Memory of Frances GentryAudrey BreedingPamela & Donald BrennanJulie A. EvansKitte & Arnold GoldRaona HallEleanor KnoxVirginia MottJeanette NelsonNorm & Loadel PinerJulie StarkDavid & Gina TarkeJanet & Richard Ward

In Memory of Dewey & BarbaraGruening

Anne AdamsJoni AdamsRobert AglesSusan BodrykJoe Bouchard

In Memory of Dewey & BarbaraGruening (cont.)

Richard BowderAudrey BreedingBob & Katie BryantConnie CaryMarnee CrowhurstRaona HallHelen HeenanEleanor KnoxNorm & Loadel PinerLeRoy and Sarah PryorMargit & Pete SandsShirley SchnabelSharyl SimmonsRosemary SmileyPhyllis SmithJulie StarkDavid & Gina Tarke

In Memory of Briget Tangen KempJoe & Rebecca Benatar

In Memory of Rev. Edgar NelsonMarnee Crowhurst

In Memory of Edwina Dean ParkMargit & Pete Sands

In Memory of Truman PraterW. C. McFarland

In Memory of Ann RiceKatherine Bryant

In Memory of Joe RuzichAudrey BreedingHelen HeenanMargaret Pursch

In Memory of Mrs. George Edie StevensSteven Richardson


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In Memory of Betty TaylorBarbara BarnettSam & Kathy ShannonSharon Shimizu & David NeubertEthel Wallace

In Memory of James ThompsonConnie Cary

In Memory of LeRoy George ThompsonMarnee Crowhurst

In Memory of Jane UllreyKatherine SchmidlMargit & Pete SandsElaine Tarke

In Memory of James UrenSharyl SimmonsJulie Stark

In Honor of Larry HarrisLive Oak Women’s Club

Coming EventsApril9 Spring Vacation Children’s Program at the Museum17-18 Wear & Remembrance, Vintage Apparel Fair

at the Sutter County Veterans’ Hall23 River Valley High School art exhibit opens24 Membership Meeting at the Robbins Community Hall

11:30 am social time, 12:00 luncheonProgram: The History of the Old Sutter Basin by Janet Alonso

May14 River Valley High School art exhibit ends14 Sister Swing and Tea at the Museum

June

11 Multiply by Six Million: California Holocaust Survivors exhibit opensat the Museum

19 Potluck Picnic in the Park at Howard Harter Memorial Park(behind the Museum)11:30 am Social time, 12:00 lunchProgram: Greg Wellman, local author ofA History of Alcatraz Island 1853-2008

JulySummer Vacation Children’s Program


The History of the Sutter Buttes is in Your Hands!by

Mike Hubbartt

Sutter County’s courthouse andthe adjoining Hall of Records convey anappreciation of our local heritage thatis palpable and tangible. Their thick,solid, and fireproof brick and stoneconstruction is over 100 years old.

The former has withstood adevastating fire, the latter wasremodeled into an august chamberwhere weekly public meetings allowmembers of the community toparticipate in the decision process asCounty Supervisors deliberate onplanning and policy that affect thefuture of every-one in Sutter County.History happens here.

Amid the plethora of routinecounty tasks and responsibilities thatare reviewed and acted upon, theSupervisors are approving a series ofproposals that will shape the preserva-tion of our county’s pastoral country-side while encouraging the growth ofour economic output. These proposalscomprise our new General Plan update,a process which has been reviewedabout every fifteen years. Thisprocess, nearly complete, will guidepolicy decisions until 2025.

The General Plan Vision State-ment and its early polls recognized theButtes as an asset to the county, andthat there was public support to pre-serve the Buttes’ scenic panorama, notto develop it. Yet the new proposedGeneral Plan offers only one modestchange to minimize land splits, whileincorporating proposed changes thatseem to come from those who wish todevelop their land in and around themost prominent landmark in the entireSacramento Valley.

Reflect upon your last drivearound the picturesque landscape ofthe smallest mountain range in theworld. Have you noticed the newhomes in the past ten years, thecontinued home construction, andthe new FOR SALE signs? Would youlike to see this trend continueunabated?

Would you consider attending apublic workshop that promotes farmingand ranching property rights, exploresways to confirm parcel sizes thatsupports financially viable ranchingoperations like those that have thus farpreserved the Buttes’ pastoral hillsides,ways to limit commercial sub-divisions,and programs that financially rewardthose landowners who are open topreserving their agricultural heritage?

Would you write a letterexpressing your desire to protect theButtes and ask your friends to do thesame? Address it to the MiddleMountain Foundation, PO Box 3359,Yuba City, CA 95992, or [email protected].

If you wish to see that the SutterButtes remain the rugged historic andpicturesque landmark that is even moreof a symbol of our heritage than theSutter County’s fine old governmentaledifices, now is the time for you toinfluence the preservation of ourpriceless landmark.

Your response at this time isimperative to initiate this process.Without your interest the county maynot support additional public meetingsto a process that is nearly complete.The future history of the Sutter Buttesis in your hands!


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Far from Home:The Letters of Bill and Harry Huntington

Part IIedited by Phyllis Smith

This is the second part of a series of articles based on the letters of Bill andHarry Huntington, local boys who served in World War II. After the first article waspublished, we heard from some readers about their experiences that related to it.

Norma Jenks told us her brother was stationed at Lowry Field.Bob Laycock’s mother was a stewardess on the President Coolidge when it was

a luxury liner.Bill Huntington mentions wanting to “see Briggs” about buying a car. Dwayne

Haynes told us that Briggs was his uncle, Fred C. Briggs, and he had a garage onCalifornia Street in Sutter from 1927 to 1960. He also worked as a sub-dealer for theDodge dealership in Marysville. Mostly he sold pickups to farmers, but he sold themfor just a little over sticker price and won awards for selling so many Dodges.

When Dwayne was a boy his family lived near Pumping Station #1 at thebypass. He remembers riding down the levee and seeing the diving board theHuntington boys put up at the canal across from the house at the spot where theywent swimming. He was fascinated by the diving board.

Bill’s dad, Warren, was in the National Guard with Dwayne's dad after WW I.Someone else noticed that Bill never asked about what was happening at home.

Actually, he frequently asked about specific people, his dog and other animals, andcommented on things mentioned in letters he received from his family, but becauseof our limited space we had to edit the letters and those were the things that didn’tmake the final cut. The same is true with Harry’s letters.

Harry wrote many letters to hisfamily, his grandmother, and his sister.He probably wrote three times as manyletters as Bill, but he was in the ser-vice six months longer. He sometimesspelled things creatively, and he had aknack for a clever turn of phrase. Hefrequently signed his letters with ajibe at what the Army had in store forhim at the moment.

Harry left for the Army AirCorps in September, 1942. He took atrain to San Francisco.

Boy I thought I was traveling instyle until we transferred at Sac. Goton a smoker there with davenports init. Me and another guy curled up and

slept a couple hours. [At his physicalhe] was turned down cause the guythought I wanted to be a mechanic.Finally convinced him and then had towait another day to get a release fromthe darn draft board, cost me a buck toget a release.”

Sept. 4, 1942Seen R. Close and a couple more

Sutter draftees [in “Monteray.”]

Sept. 11, 1942I’m now in Salt Lake City in a

few dust storms. Walk in the barracksand dust on the floor about an inchdeep. More when we do something


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besides walk, wait, and wilt. I waitedso much my stern is sore.”

Sept. 16, 1942We just started our basic train-

ing and that means we get about amonth of drilling, guard duty, andother stuff like that.

There’s a guy here, every timehe tells a joke, it turns out a flop.Then about 2 minutes later he’ll speakup and say, “Guess I told that onewrong.” He’s kinda of absent minded.Went to the latrine and when he cameout, went the wrong way and it tookhim about 1 hr. to find our barracks.Yesterday he took a shower and washedhimself with his undershirt, thought hehad his towel. He is a lot of funthough. Nicknames are sure in orderaround here. A few of them are

Sunshine - that’s meWild Bill - that’s the guy I wasjust telling you aboutPeanuts - always has a bag ofpeanuts in his mouth or hands

Got our second shot and threeguys passed out. The other barracks aguy had a heart attack after his shot.

If you want to hear an argument,listen to the Texans and Californians onwhich is a better state. So far there isno winner. But we have hopes.

Harry was at Kearns ArmyAirfield in northern Utah, built in 1942because the US military wanted largetraining bases to be inland to be lessvulnerable to attacks from the coast.1

Sept. 21, 1942 (postmark)I have moved to a new location

which is heaven compared to Kearns.I’m trying to be a gunner or maybe Ishould say they are trying to do it.

Sept. 27, 1942Sure heck to be so near Salt Lake

and can’t even get a pass to get out ofthe post. Some guy who knows all, gotthe first pass and he took another dayoff so ruined it for the rest of us.

Oct. 4, 1942Tonight I get my first pass since

I’ve been in the army. Going to seewhat Salt Lake City looks like up close.

Went to the rifle rangeyesterday and got a little shootingpractice made 120 out of 175, ain’t sohot but when I was operating the targetone guy missed the whole target.Every time the gun would go off I wasblowed back a couple of inches, spentmost of my time crawling up to thefiring line.

I operated the target down in apit and as the bullet went over itreminded me of deer season. Sure gotdirty in the pit cause some guys shottoo low and the dirt just sprayed allover you. If dirt is good for a personI’ll probably grow about 3 feet. Whenyou aren’t diving at it you just laydown and roll like a horse.

We haven’t done much exceptthe usual that’s walk, walk and walk.

He left Utah for Las VegasArmy Air Field. Construction of thefield began in March 1941; gunnerytraining in January 1942. By the end of1942, 9,117 aerial gunners hadgraduated. The base was renamedNellis Air Force Base in 1950 in honorof P-47 pilot 1st Lieutenant WilliamNellis, a fighter pilot with 69 missionsto his credit, killed in action overLuxembourg in 1944 during the Battleof the Bulge. Nellis is the home of theworld-renowned Thunderbirds.2


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Oct. 14, 1942Going to school from 7:30 to

17:30. Spend the rest of your timeeating studying and a few hours sleep.

I’ve learned more in 3 days thanin 6 months at high school. Our testsare simple. I have an average of 93%.

Some guy went up in a planetoday and he fell out. He made it tothe ground and never killed himself,got his first parachute jump and didn’thave much to say about it.

After 4 more weeks we get to goup and shoot at towed targets, every-one is looking forward to that.

Oct. 15,1942Everyone wants to know all

about the school. It’s just like anyother school, listen, study and taketests. Darn guys sure have a time withme. I read the lesson once or twiceand get 100 and they pour over thosebooks and get 80. Only have to flunktwo tests and your course at gunneryschool is complete. Algebra andgeometry come in handy, specially ingetting your sights. I still can’t figureout where they can hide all the parts ofa machine gun. We learn how tooperate a turret also.

The dragon [on the letterhead ofthe school stationery] as you called itis supposed to be a horn toad and it isjust the insignia of this school.

Oct. 18, 1942When we first got here they put

us in a pressure chamber and then tookall our air away. Actually we were at30,000 foot but on the ground. We hadto breathe oxygen and it was the mostwelcome stuff ever taken in my lungsespecially at 18,000 foot level.

Around here you feel like you’rereally in the air corp. There are

airplanes flying around.

Oct. 23, 1942We just about completed our

studies in classrooms, spend most ofour time on the range hereafter. Shotskeet today and got 35 out of 50. Imight get a chance to go to bombardierschool after this if I keep my averageup and gain a little more points.

We take to the air in the 5th

week. I was just talking to one of myroommates about the Sac. Fair. He ledhis cattle the time the Future Farmerswent. He lives in Montana and seemsfunny we were so near and then meet 2years later and find out you’re so close.

A kid here got a mess kit thathad his dad’s name on it. Come to findout his dad had written his name on themess kit in the last war.

Oct. 24, 1942Our studies are secrets but in

general it is about guns and shooting,both in bombers and small planes.

Had bed check at 22:30 o’clockand I just had one shoe off. I dove inbed with my shoe on and got to laugh-ing so much I woke everyone, darn neargot murdered.

Oct. 29, 1942We’ve been spending all week

riding around in a truck and shootingclay pigeons, like the dove hunters onthe levee. [Remains of clay pigeonsfrom these exercises still exist today inthe desert north of Las Vegas.]3 So farain’t doing so hot only get about 3/4 ofthe birds. Been shooting 22’s also andbeen losing 25 cents every day. Bettingon the high score, miss it by a couple ofpoints every time. We only have half aday of classwork now and shoot the restof the time.


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Nov. 2, 1942We had our first taste of a 30

caliber machine gun. Scores weren’t sohot but sure was an experience. I wasblowing a heck of a hole in my ammuni-tion when the bottom part of my gunfell off. I was scared for awhile butnothing terrible happened.

I’m getting fatter than a hog andmy clothes don’t fit so hot now.

11/8/42I’m finished with ground school.

Spent the rest of the time in the air.Hope to apply for aviation cadet at myassigned squadron. Everyone is havingtrouble loading their guns. The slip-stream catches up and away goes theammunition.

Got our winter flying suit and itlooks like a sheep turned wrong sideout but it keeps you warm.

Nov. 10, 1942Have been having a swell time,

flying for the last two days. Doingabout average in shooting. Today afterI was through firing the pilot stood theplane on edge, I felt like I was fallingout but had the darn belt fixed O.K. Ibet I was laying parallel with theground. I was scared stiff.

Nov. 14, 1942Sure have quite a time flying. I

sure wish I could have turned my gunon the pilot, I’d sure made him shut upwhile l was shooting. I fooled himyesterday, I disconnected my headsetso I shot in peace. Guess it made himmad cause he put that plane in a heckof a lot of knots. Once I thoughtsomeone dumped a bunch of cement onmy head. I couldn’t raise my head orhands up. Come to find out he just

pulled out of a dive. I enjoyed my ride.Come down again and had an-

other whirlwind of a ride, was standingup shooting and all of a sudden myknees gave out and I set down in myseat like a bolt of lightning. The pilotjust sat there and grinned.

Nov. 15, 1942Sure could see plenty of country

from up in the air. There were about 5farms in the desert and they are just asgreen as it is in springtime. Each househas a big resivor right beside it.

Nov. 20, 1942I did graduate from aerial gunner

school, without a lot of argument fromthe commander. We got issued wings,which was very lucky for us, secondclass to be issued wings.

PS The title is now Sergeant.

Nov. 29, 1942 (postmark)Kearns is now an overseas camp

and they train with real guns.You ought to hear what they call

us gunners. “Hollywood Sergeants.”The first guy who said that had a blackeye in the morning. Bumped into adoor I guess.

Sure pulled a boner on us today.Had us pretty near shipped and thensent us back. Trouble was we had topack our darn barracks bag all over thedarn camp. They sure got heavy afterthe 6th or 7th block.

I [have] left Nevada for a while.[He returned to Utah.] Hope thecountry is better where I’m assigned toa squadron. Those planes that arecircling around the ranch and doingthose crazy things are mild compared[to what] us gunners went throughwhile getting our air to air firing.

Got to spend 6 weeks in radio


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school and then if we aren’t misled, weget another rating, or promotion.

Dec. 3, 1942Had four days of school. The dot

and dashes aren’t too hard take about4 words a minute but learning aboutelectricity is a horse of another color.We got a college professor teaching us.What words he uses, just about 2 or 3guys understand all the things he talksabout. I’ll go to bed now and hear ----and stuff like that, when in gunneryafter a flight crawl into bed and thedarn thing rock around like an airplane.

We go to town a lot just aboutevery other day. Met a sailor yesterdaywho got shot up. Sure got a heck of alot of scars. He was a gunner’s mate.

Had quite a time past 2 days.Everyone had G.I.s so not much class-work. Have funny weather around hererain, snow, freezing and then a hotday. Utah seems to be the place forcolds to start, but never finish.

Dec. 10, 1942We’ve been going to school for 2

weeks and so far the code is just abunch of dot and dashes. Trying nowto take 10 words per minute so you canguess what it sounds like. Rememberwhen Dad used to switch our radio overon shortwave and all the noise thatcame out, that’s exactly how it sounds.

We got a pet rabbit runningaround in the barracks. The guys aregetting disgusted with it. Shoes are fullof pills some have the tongues eatenoff from them. Have to put our shoeson top of the bed at night.

Chod [Huntington, his father’sbrother] and Ella sent me a Christmaspresent but they give me special ordersnot to open until the day.

Do you know what Randy’s

[Schnabel] address is and also whatpart of radio he is teaching. Like to askhim some questions.

I have plenty of time to writenow, quarantined for 2 weeks causesomeone has the measles.

Dec. 15, 1942Guy from Vegas wrote me and

never put the letter in the envelope. Iclimbed out of bed in a hurry to getthat letter. Spoiled the day for me.

If you can’t read this I’ll blame iton the gas mask. Having a gas drill anddon’t know how long it will last.

Will be halfway through schoolby the end of the week, but I’m afraidI’m going to spend another week or sohere. The code stuff is sure balled upin my mind. Guess it’s okay after youonce find the key but try and find it.

That rabbit raised hell with myshoes. Got about ½ of a tongue left.Won’t be long we’ll have rabbit stew.

Got one letter from Sis [MiriamHuntington Coon] she mailed a monthago. One letter bounced around on thepost a week before they found me.

The Doc. said he’d lift thequarantine if someone would have themeasles. That don’t make much sense.

Dec. 19, 1942I’m no longer going to radio

school, me and 125 others out of ourclass of 200. Don’t know what thescore is as yet but everyone is madderthan heck. The way they run things issure nuts. Washed out a guy who wastaking 12 words a minute and hadn’tgot below 85% in his tests. This is anexample of those who washed out.

I guess it will seem like a bigChristmas to get our ole quarantinetaken off so we can have the run of thecamp again. I even got rid of my cold


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so I feel pretty good.A Lt. said today, “We don’t like

aerial gunners from Las Vegas,” thatcame from a Lt.

Dec. 26, 1942I really had quite a Christmas.

Thanks for the shoes and tea. When Iput those shoes on and took one stepmy head hit the roof, pretty near threwmy hip out of joint. Sure felt lightafter wearing GI’s for four months!

You should have seen that @*&^#rabbit go for that hay. Bet it’s the firsttime she seen it for quite some time.

Sure got a lot of stuff fromGrandpa H. He sent me a snappy wal-let and candy. Ella and Chod - writingpaper and some more candy. Mrs.Jones - candy and cookies. Bernice -picture, cookies and candy. Those mailguys were mad having to pack all thosepackages over to me, while I slept.

Heard rumor that we might getshipped, so going to Armor school.Guess I’ll be going to school all my life.

Sure some funny Christmaspresents, one guy got 4 cans ofsardines, Greenlaw got some tea too,also a bar of soap shaped like a corset.

Guess I told you we are no longerin quarantine. Takes a lot off a guy’smind. Don’t have to figure out a wayto get past the guards.

Dec. 28, 1942Well I had a swell Christmas. I

guess pretty near everyone enjoyed thecookies & cake, [they] want to knowyour address. I think I ate myself sick,had big turkey dinner and more darncandy, cookies, cakes. Had quite a fewdays of K.P. Had it pretty easy though.

K.P. first class, Harry.

Next Harry was sent to Lowry Army

Field near Denver, where his brotherBill had trained in 1941.

Jan. 2, 1943I finally got out of the hell hole,

Salt Lake Army Air base. So far wehave been having a swell time

Will start to school again Mondayand I got my fingers crossed that theywon’t get another brainstorm and kicka bunch of us out again. Us gunnerssure catch the devil wherever we go.Guys stationed here like us like a bunchof skunks. (I don’t believe it’s becausemost of our feet stink either.)

Jan 5, 1943Finally left the worst camp in

the west and we came to one of thebest. So far it has lived up to all theysay about it. We spend about 8 or 9hours on duty and then we can sleep,go to town or anything we feel likedoing. We have a pass that lets us outof camp any hour and vice versa.

Class started today and we justfooled around with machine guns.Didn’t actually learn anything. Themen here at the field don’t likegunners very well, but most of us areused to being hated so it O.K.

Met 4 guys I took basic trainingwith, going to the same school. Seemslike I am meeting everyone that I metin some other camp.

Always a school victim. HarryP.S. We have women school teachersand truck drivers. So us men reallyjump now.

Jan 10, 1943Still haven’t learned anything

that I already been taught. Next weekwe study 30 calibers so I imagine it willbe about as dull as the 50’s.

Guess it won’t be long before


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aerial gunnery’s and the rest of thecamp personnel will come to blows.Things are going from bad to worse,and we get the blame. Probably beanother fight like the north and thesouth.

Jan. 20, 1943They sure do things crazy. Had 5

weeks on machine gun at Las Vegas,spent a week on 30’s & 50’s here, thenwhen it comes to something [new] theygive us 3 days to learn about a gun.

They sure got me in a heck of aplace now. All I do is sleep and eatpills. That’s right I’m in the hospitalwith something call Phamngites[pharyngitis, inflammation of thepharynx] or something close to it,probably means sore toe but here I am.I get a least 3 pills for an appetizerbefore each meal and they stick athermometer in my mouth every 15minutes or so. I’m getting so I ain’tcomfortable without a piece of glassstuck in my mouth.

Jan. 29, 1943Have been out of school for a

week now but I return to class Sundayonly 2 weeks behind.

A bunch of W.A.A.C.s have beenshipped in here to take the civiliansplace at driving trucks for the army.Also some are going to school to besomething or other. Haven’t heard anygood rumors about them yet.

Jan. 30, 1943Same ole grind. Get up sweep,

mop, shine the shoes and lay downagain, wait until someone yells for youabout 1/2 minute after you lay down.

Got out of the pill box and feelOK just been loafing around for thepast few days. Seen a bunch of WAAC

arrive they look like soldiers getting offa train only they wore skirts.

Feb. 2, 1943Been studying cannons for the

past week so I feel I know somethingabout them. I hope I do.

Feb 10, 1943Learning how to load bombs in

the planes and also how to install thethings that make them blow up.

We go to school from noon to sixnow so we don’t have to get up soearly. They are running us through theexercises now. Have us run like madand then see how much dirt we canplow up with our noses.

Too cold to go to town so wejust sleep, eat, mop, sweep, washwindow, shine shoes, police up thegrounds, growl about this and that andjust take it easy in other words.

Feb. 14, 1943My class is supposed to return to

Salt Lake but the Army is the Army sonothing is definite. [Harry did returnto Utah.]

Feb. 22, 1943Just finished bomb racks and

how to load the darn things. Probablydon’t know as much now as I did when Ifirst went into the class.

They are showing us stuff calledjudo or something like that, practicingholds that might break a neck or tearan arm off. They say so far the stuff ismild. Hate to see what rough stuff is.

A guy [has] some pills for coldand another guy has same pill forathlete’s foot.

February 25, 1943The owner of the barracks’


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rabbit is now in bad shape. He was in aB-17 - that is a big four motored bomb-er and it was coming in for a crashlanding. He got scared and jumped outjust before it hit. The hospital has acase for the duration, patching up whatpieces are left. Ever try jumping outsomething doing around a 100 milesper, 20 to 15 feet off the ground.Guess the rabbit will hit the mess hall.

March 6, 1943We sure are having a heck of

stuff called weather. Been snowing forthe last 3 days and now getting prettydarn deep….. 7 ft. Right now I’ll betthe mercury is shivering from the cold.

March 15, 1943They sure have some screwy

orders around here. Today the newone was a killer diller of them all.

No classroom will have anychairs in it. So now everyone stands upfor 6 hours straight. Write andeverything standing up. Got one wayto beat it. Everyone has to go to thelatrine for a few minutes. Sure a heckof a place to sit but war is war.

Our old barrack chief’s wife is inMarysville. He seen a postmark on oneof your letters and was wondering whoI knew there. Sure was surprised tothink I came from near the place. Alsogot a guy here from Auburn, so I feellike a next door neighbor.

When I was on KP, the KP pushersaid “feed em, don’t fatten em.” Ionly weighed 130 lbs. when I came in,of course I don’t eat very much, but Ionly weigh 155 lbs. now. That is 6months 12 days and 5 hours. So yousee how they treat us skinny guys.

March 22, 1943After this we go to the long

awaited squadron. Guess I’ve said thatafter each school. So far everythingseems to be going like it’s true.

That church I was going to threwa farewell party. It was a swell partyand I think everyone was darn near sickfrom laughing. Don’t that sound like anice farewell.


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March 25, 1943We have 7 days a week here and

they are think of putting the 8th day.I sure couldn’t sleep on the

train. We had day coaches about 1918model. They bounced around like acrazy man in a barrel full of tacks.Sure was a mess. (I mean the train notthe crazy man in the barrel.)

This place makes one feel athome. We sleep in the cow barns, havea P.X. in the fish house. Supply roomtakes the place of the chickens & Ithink we eat in the hog shed. Make apleasant surrounding for some city guy.

We also go to school for a coupleof days in the horse barn, no we aren’tlearning to ride any horses. Reason iswe are at the State Fair grounds andthe barns are the barracks.

March 29, 1943Again I’ve moved and finally

have gotten to the squadron that I’vementioned a number of times. [Thiswas the 65th Bombardment Squadron.]So far we are the only ones here. [Weare replacements] and are waiting forthe squadron to come to us.

There are two from Sutter herenow, me and Clarence Gridley.Remember his brother Jim drownedlast summer. Told the guy next to himall about Dad, what a build up. Guesswhat he said was true but it suresounded like a lot more that I everthought of it. A person would ofthought I was McArther’s son.

I’m a little disappointed cause asthe rumors go this outfit is B-24bombers or “Liberator,” would haveliked to be with B-17 or “FlyingFortress.” [The B-24 was a heavybomber, produced in greater numbersthan any other American militaryaircraft. It was more modern than the

B-17 – faster, with a greater range andbomb load, but more difficult to fly.Flying crews were much more satisfiedwith the B-17, which dropped morebombs than any other U.S. aircraftduring World War II.]4

April 3, 1943Am now trying to enjoy the

weather of Idaho. [The armyestablished a number of trainingairfields in Idaho. Harry was atPocatello.]5 It’s swell weather but thewind blows day & night. I go aroundleaning over to one side or the other.

We start our last phases oftraining this month. We will be flyingmost of the time from here on out.Probably be on cross country flights.

I’ve got a feeling it isn’t going tobe to thrilling, cause then we fly day &night. They say if a person gets 4 hoursof sleep a day he is very lucky.

April 4, 1943You should have been here to

see the bombers come! What a sight -15 or 20 flying a couple of hundred feetoff the ground coming hell bent forelection straight at you - kind of takesyour breath away, scary too. I guess bythe end of the week our work reallybegins. So far it sure sounds swell butthat is mostly sound and not doing.

The rabbit’s owner was shippedout [to Boise] sometime after I was –Ihaven’t seen him. From what ole BillOliver said he isn’t very nice to seeanyway - you can imagine what wouldhappen if you jumped about 15 feettraveling over 100 miles an hour.

Has Earl got his hay hauled yetor is he still waiting for me - Tell himI’ll help him next fall. The guy whothought of the expression “Home SweetHome” sure hit the nail on the head.


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April 9, 1943Have been assigned to a squad-

ron also to crew today. Haven’t metthe pilot or those who handle the noseof the plane. I’m 1st Armor Gunner, soI handle a flexable waist gun. TheCaptain is a West Point Graduate andhe is plenty rough. I have to be on theball all the time. We are slated to fly12 hours and go to school 12 hours, ofcourse we are subject to call for 12hours for each type of job.

April 12, 1943What do you mean by sending

me a picture of home. Now I can’t tellthe captain that I haven’t seen homesince the day I left. See if you can finda picture of Fritz, so I can put him upwith all the girl’s pictures.

Made my first trip in a bomberyesterday, came in for the secondlanding and blew a tire. Never heardso much banging growling and everyother crazy noise. You can imagine thesound if a carry-all tire blew out. Thesizes are about the same.

Even been to school alreadyagain. Trying to learn about maps, sonot many guys fall asleep now. Gotmyself a parachute and also got fitted.Went up yesterday without it beingfitted. Pilot said we find a way to holdon if we had to bale out.

April 16, 1943They sure kept us busy today had

to get up 3:30 this morning and fly untilnoon. Didn’t do much while we wereflying but it sure tired the crew out.Our bomberdiear slept. Everyone leftthe plane and he slept on.

They sure give me a job on theplane – Armor- Gunner- got to see thatall the guns on the planes work & fix

them if they don’t. Besides trying toshoot my own gun. Guess I’ll get use toit sometime but right now I’m poopingmyself out running from the front ofthe plane to the rear. Never knew theywere so big until then.

April 17, 1943I’ve got to make out a will - do

you know of any stuff I have to will?We sure have a time every time

we leave the ground. The crew is OKbut the planes sure don’t keep on theball. First the super charger on onemotor burned up then another motorsprung an oil leak then to top the flightoff our batteries went dead. We didn’tmind that but those batteries made aheck of a stink. Our instructor pilotwas showing our pilot how to take offon a small runway. He turned a cornerpicking up speed which threw me andmy gunner clear across the plane.

Gosh, now I’ve got to learnphotography. Have to take pictures ofwhat the bombs do. I never knew a guyhad so much to do in one little plane.

April 25, 1943They are trying to break up our

crew. Don’t know the results yet butthe pilot wants to stay with us. Thatsure surprises me, guess he likes ourcompany a little. We flew all night acouple of days ago. Could see lights allover the country. Looks like a personwas looking down at the stars.

When we are on flight the guysin the field are getting a good workingover. I don’t think they trust us veryfar, cause we haven’t been givenammunition as yet. Heck, what wouldget hurt with 6 or 7 guns pointed atthings on the ground? We use thingslike tractors and stuff to practicetracking and get the movement of the


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turret down. We had to recognize aplane in 1/25 of a second. The guyssay ready and flash of light and thendark. He even had the nerve to askwhat kind of a plane it was. Were we asurprised bunch. It was different afterwe knew what was going to happen. Sohe set a few at 1/100 of a second. Weeven surprised him that time. Probablyaccident, we were right though.

April 25, 1943Loretta [Dean] makes a Sgt.

sound like something. A Sgt is nothingmore than an overpaid private and a Lt.rates just a tiny bit more. A Sgt is thelowest rank in a combat crew.

May 1, 1943This paper is from a dead

person. He gave it to me the daybefore----

Got a new co-pilot and believe itor not he is 19 years old. We sure havea nice time arguing with the old men.Darn guys 24 years old sure are grandpaon our crew. Course we have one greatgrandpa. He’s all of 37.

Our pilot likes to strafe so hesays. We sure had a time the otherday, cut 3 motors off and gailyproceeded on our way with one motor.Then to top things off the darn motorhad an oil leak. Boy we came downquick then.

May 3, 1943Have a time fooling around in

the tail turret. Every time someonegets into it the pilot [likes] to fling thetail around so what rides we get.

So far us two tail men have keptour dinner down note the underline inmen. That is the way to make my selffeel good. I’m taking pictures now. Ithink I’m going to be a very poor photo-

grapher cause when our bomberdiarmakes any hits on the target it’s theonly pictures I don’t get.

May 5, 1943Our co-pilot took over the

controls of the plane the other day andwhat a ride he gave us. I was gazingout the window taking in the scenerywhen all of a sudden I was lookingstraight up at the sun and just about asfast everything went the other way.I’ll bet he wished he could turn theplane over – he tried pretty hard.

May 9, 1943Tomorrow we start on second

phase and then we can spread out alittle bit, take in 300 miles of countrymore in one direction than we used tobe able to. Then the third and last butnot least [phase] a trip to Kansas andpick up a new plane & then who knows.Sounds simple on paper but time thearmy get through fooling around 5 or 4months have rolled by.

We were hedge hopping with abomber and we flew over a lake sodarn low I believe if I had leaned outthe window I could have washed myhand easy. Then I grew tired of thatand went to sleep. The pilot got alittle riled, no one would get excitedover all his stunts. The co-pilot did situs all down in back, made a sharp turn& the force put us where we belonged.

Seen Andy Devine the othernight. [Andy Devine was an actorknown for his high-pitched, raspyvoice.]6 He was out to the base at adance. Does his voice sound rusty.Sounds just like he did on Jack Benny’sprogram. He cracked a joke. … hewanted to join the calvry, horse troops.The ole [top kick] said he was sorryeven though they needed men, but


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they only issued one horse per man inthis outfit. Ole Andy would need about3 to hold him up.

I’m really going to the dogs nowonly last night I went to an operaretta.(one of those screaming plays withacters who put music into their coursevoices). OK it was a pretty nice showeven if I didn’t know anything about it.The name was “The Chocalate Soldier.”I must have been really wild $1.75 perseat and they weren’t the best in thehouse by a long chance. [The Choco-late Soldier is an operetta from 1908by Oscar Straus, based on GeorgeBernard Shaw’s Arms and the Man.]7

We sure have quite an outfithere. Plenty of crews & personnel buta person has to go around with ablotter to find enough to piece togeth-er [to] make just one [plane] fly.

May 13, 1943Today we had to recognize types

of poison gas. They set off a gas bomb& we walk into the fumes, then try totell what kind of gas it was.

Difference from first & secondphase [of training], we have moreterritory to cover. This way we can hitOregon, California, Utah and Montana.Have quite a number to states towander around in.

May 16, 1943We have to fly with all hatches

open now so will be used to the coldand also get used to moving aroundwith all those heavy clothes on.

We have a new B-17 added toour (ole) new B-24s. We use it as a towplane in air to air firing. Have to learnhow to bomb now just in case thebombardier isn’t able to bomb. A fewmore jobs and a gunner will be moreimportant than adding ballast.

May 20, 1943Got a letter back, I’d sent to the

kid that raised his right hand the sametime I did and continued through thesame school is no more. At least thatwas the reason for return of the letter.Makes a person do a little thinking.That is if a person can.

Sure had a time yesterday, wasfiring the tunnel gun (on the bottom ofthe plane) at the ground, when thelatch comes undone, gun, door andmyself flew straight up in the air.Those caliber 50 guns have quite a bitof power or I was extra light.

May 21, 1943Been flying around shooting the

ground full of holes and most any thingelse that happens to be around. Weflew over a town and dropped emptycartarage cases out of the planes. Wewere flying around 20 feet above theground while firing yesterday. Thepilot got out of his seat and told me toget in and help the co-pilot. Wassuppose to watch for other planes butthe co-pilot told me to take over thecontrols. He let me fly the plane forabout half an hour, was a lot of fun.

May 24, 1943The tunnel gun is placed in the

escape hatch on the bottom of theplane and to the rear. It opens up so aperson can fall out while he has hold ofa gun. The smoke was coming from asuper charger that was on fire. Theblack smoke is the worst, cause thewhole engine is on fire then.

When a guy fires a gun his headvibrates, in fact there isn’t much ofhim that doesn’t vibrate. With one gunfiring the whole ship bounces so youcan imagine the recoil of just one. So


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far only 5 [planes] have crashed, onebad. One plane just missed us, weparked in the wrong squadron by mis-take. Best mistake that ever happenedto our crew cause we were supposed tobe right where the plane went tearingthru. All the other planes just gotruined but the men walked away,which is considered a good landing.

We do high altitude flying fromnow on. And is it cold. Never knew itwould get that cold, but live and learn.Guess you’ll be looking in the air whenyou hear an airplane. Better look downlow cause our pilot loves to skim overthe ground and I mean skim.

May 27, 1943We made a couple of flights,

high altitude, darn near froze the firstone and second one, engine trouble sowe came down in a hurry. Just a littlemore fire on one engine, nothing toworry about - when our parachute ishandy. We landed on three enginesand did very good too. Just three daysbefore one plane cracked up doing thesame thing.

We are getting new equipmentissued us now. Have to lug one ofthose steel helmets around and thatgets darn heavy. Have to wear them onmissions while in the air. These guyswho come back after their 300 hoursare up say the flak really bounces offthem nice. After 300 hours combatflying we come back to the states for arest period. Only take 6 months forthat many hours approximately.

May 30, 1943Sure have nutty weather here,

was hot as the devil on the ground and12,000 feet we ran into snow and rainstorms. Ball, the other gunner, nosefroze on him. He couldn’t breathe very

darn well for a little while.Took me about 6 months to go

from California Utah Nevada, Coloradoto Idaho. Yesterday we went fromIdaho to Montana back thru Idaho overto Utah and then home in 3 hours. Suremakes the word seem small to travelaround like that in so short of time.

June 6, 1943We were suppose to take out

$10,000 [this must be life insurancebecause his mother mentions gettingpayments in the 1950s due to Harry’sdeath] before going into combat.Didn’t have to but they make it so youwished you had.

You learn something new everyday when flying around. We flew highwe flew low and also in between thosedistances we flew. But yesterday wasthe first time we ever played with theclouds to any extent. Go way up anddive on them. The pilot did everythingexcept turn it over and he even triedhard at that. At least I looked downand seen sky, so he had it well tilted.Been flying formation lately so wecouldn’t fool around too much. Evenso the pilots tried to scare each otherby seeing how close they can comewithout hitting.

June 8,1943A H.B.C. guy is a member of a

Heavy Bombardment Crew, which do alot of high bombing and are probably inthe Heavy Bomber Command.

It isn’t more than a couple ofhours from here to Marysville. Todayyou should have seen a bunch of B-24’sarrive at Marysville from here. Got tothinking of all the dough it cost to traina bomber crew. Send each personthrough two schools and then overseastraining. What made me wonder was I


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was helping service the plane and I put700 gallons of gas into just two tanks.Then we poured in 6 gallons of oil intoeach of the oil tanks – one for eachmotor for six hours of flying.

June 15, 1943Yesterday we done a crazy trick,

made a high altitude flight and me andassistant radio operator never put ouroxygen masks on. We cruised aroundabout 15 minutes at 25,000 feet whenthings began to get out of focus; feltlike someone had gave us a good whackon the head. The co-pilot came backand got us straightened out. It wasn’tbad after that except a little coldabout 30 below. Those sheep skins feltlike paper. Come down and we had towait until the breath in the masksunfroze before we could put themaway. Mask was ½ full of ice.

We are ready to start on thirdphase now; we make an over oceanflight. Don’t know whether we aregoing over the Gulf of Mexico or thePacific. Hope the Pacific, cause thatmeans Marysville.

June 24,1943,You thought that snapshot

looked tired well now I feel twice astired. We fly morning - noon and oncein a while half the night. For the pastthree days we flew all but 6 hr. perday. We fired 6,000 rounds ofammunition in about 5 hours, only had4 guns firing too. So far we hold therecord for most rounds fired per day.

Got rid of my seat-type para-chute, now got a chest type. Makes mefeel better when a couple enginesbegin to smoke. The chest chute wewear the harness all the time and justhook the chute on. That way a personcan save about 30 seconds without

having to put all that junk on at once.Had a good laugh at our

bombardier. He was sitting on thefloor of the plane wondering whetherhe should get up. All of a sudden thenose went down and then up again.There sat the bombardier in mid-airwith his eyes about as big as a plate.Everything in the back of the plane leftthe floor, traveled half way to the roofand then came down again - wham.

June 27, 1943At 14,000 a light jacket is all we

wear but above 20,000 a guy puts on allhis clothes and wishes he had more.The worst thing of all is wearing theoxygen mask and having your nose run.

July 1,1943Yesterday we had a look at the

state of Oregon and in the afternoonwe had a look see at Yellowstone. SawOle Faithful rise up and welcome us -when it seen who it was it went downpretty fast. Never knew a geyser hadsuch feelings. Sure looked funny poolsof water steaming and snow all around.

Over Oregon we tried to knockdown smokestacks that belong to oneof the guy’s dad. Run into bad weathercoming back, and was it cold. The iceblew right inside the plane and madeeverything nice and white.

July 4, 1943Here it is the 4th (I think) and

me with no fire-crackers, sure isdisgusting all we have here is practicebomb demos and incendiary bombs,guess they will be my fireworks.

We drop incendiaries and theysure make a bright light. Guess theyare hot, we were up 5,000 feet andthey burned just as bright as a matchbefore your nose.


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July 22,1943Sure been on the go the last

couple of days. We left Pocatelloyesterday morning and arrived here(Herington, Kansas) yesterday aboutnoon. This place is hot. I think it isabout like H_ll is supposed to be.[There was a staging at Herington forB-24 Liberators, and later for B-29bombers. They processed personnel,made final modifications to planes,and if needed, crews got additionaltraining. Then they left for combat.]8

Got another parachute and theyhave a lot of stuff in them. Rationsfirst aid stuff and a big jungle knife.

July 28, 1943I guess we have completed

everything we are supposed to do here.We spent yesterday afternoon

interrupting the hay crews surroundingthe field. We cruised along about 15feet high so the farmers droppedeverything and watched. Bet theywore their arms out waving. Chaseddown a train and the passengers nearlyclimbed out the windows to see us goby. Nearly caused all the chickens tobreak their necks, every time we flewover they made a mad dash right intothe fences.

July 1943, Herington, KansasMade it back to Idaho, stayed

two nights and one day and thenproceeded to this spot. We made it inabout 4 hours after leaving Pocatello.Some other guys had to come on thetrain and it took them 3 days.

The navigator let me navigatedown here, only miss the place about100 miles, don’t think he trust me veryfar any more but when a guy gave alecture said they missed one of theHawaii Island by 200 miles so I didn’tfeel so bad, cause this guy was supposeto be a navigator.

All of us got pistols now.

August 4, 1943 [postmarked Fairfield]I sure have done a lot of

traveling. We been to Florida and backto Calif. That is where I am now.

We left Kansas one morning andflew out over the Gulf of Mexico about200 miles, done some shooting at thewide open space and then to Florida.Next day we came here, passed overRoseville and Sac. and on down to thewindy place of Fairfield.

Had the bombardier’s fieldglasses but it was a little too hazy tosee our place.

In the next issue of the Bulletin we’llfollow Harry’s adventures overseas.

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Membership MeetingSaturday, April 24, 2010

at the

Robbins Community HallDel Monte Avenue

Robbins

11:30 a.m. Social Time

12:00 Luncheon

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History of the Old Sutter Basin

by Janet Alonso

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