MS-0377-12-04

Letter from Jack O. Waller, 1944

 

11/20/1944

Waller, Jack O.

 

Waller explains that hours after saying to Adams by phone that he would call next week, he "was off for the seas." He is on an auxiliary minesweeper, "small, undermanned, and rough on the sea," which is "going or coming somewhere almost constantly." He describes his reading "renaissance," fueled by "access to bookstores and an excellent library," presumably at his Pearl Harbor base.

GI Bill; United States Navy; Auxiliary motor minesweepers; YMSs; On Native Grounds (book); Alfred Kazin; Edwin Arlington Robinson; Edward Reese; GI Bill of Rights; USS YMS-479; Post-war plans; USS Waxbill

 

Hawaii - Oahu - Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam

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MS-0377

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