By this point in the timeline of Babe’s letters, his unit should be based at Caserta, Italy. … More A Palace Babe Might Have Seen on His Trek North Through Italy
“United States Army says that river bed is no longer a river bed, but a road, so now it is a road. I get quite a laugh out of that every time I think of it.” … More His Fellow Radio Operator, a Package from Home and the Silly Army
With a few spare parts, Babe the radio operator and some of his colleagues built a radio “to put us to sleep at night. The bloody thing plays good, too.” … More ‘A Little Yankee Ingenuity the Papers Are Always Talking About’
“Don’t let anyone, I don’t care if it is the mayor, tell you you can’t send anything that I just mentioned because fellows here have received everything I want in packages already.” … More Putting in His Order for a Package of Stuff; Living High off the Natives
The Italians can’t understand how Americans can have a washing machine in their own homes — or how everyone is in the same social class. … More ‘The Influential Politicians Drafted Only the Poorer Class of People’
Well, Happy and Safe 