This timeline depicts the correspondence of Harry William Manchester for the calendar year 1940.
“I was up for Orderly Room this morning and got a sentence of 7 days Confined to barracks…”
“My lighter sure works good. I think it is a grand one for ten cents don’t you?”
“Our platoon went to Cedar Springs today…”
“I am in a canteen run by the Salvation Army and is it ever packed.”
“Well I just got finished pealing the pineapple for supper & I put the sugar on it. You didn’t have to send sugar as there is plenty of sugar yet.”
‘There was a big fire over at the airport about 7 O’clock and I went over. At first we thought it was a plane crashed…”
“The advance party left for England to-day. That is the whole division. About 50 went from our Regt.”
“I have had a bad cold and I went to the doctor. They said I had acute Broncitis.”
“We heard from Jeff & he said he had a car accide…”
“It seemed whenever there was anything to pay, you girls dug down for it.”