We are being moved around like sheep.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n
From Roberts we were sent to Ft. Lewis, Wash. Stay there 3 day then we were trucked to Seattle, Wash. To guard the Boeing airplain factory. Then yesterday they took about half of us and trucked us to Ilwaco<\/strong> that is where we are now it is on the pacific coast in Wash. Near the Ore. Line. We got here a while ago. So I don’t no much about the set up. They already took some of the four or three fellows and put them on guard some where on the coast.<\/p>\n Excerpt from Administrative History of 803rd Battalion<\/p><\/div>\n Security Mission From Megler to North Head, Washington<\/p><\/div>\n This is a new Div again the Tank Destroyer Battallion this place where we are in station on a penninsula.<\/p>\n Boy the weather is afull here, it rains every day and all night we have been here for a week and I think there hasn’t been a day that it has stopped for an hour.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n Last night we had to sleep in a school house right on the floor, some of us had one blanket and some didn’t have any and there wasn’t any heat in the building either so it wasn’t such a good sleep.<\/p>\n In this little town where we are now a town of about 600 we are living in a hall a [mission\/mason] I guess we will be sleeping on the floor with one blanket and our overcoats under they give us one more blanket but we have a good stove here so it won’t be so bad.<\/p>\n I haven’t got any mail for over two week. I suppose there is a lot of mail trying to catch me but that will be hard at the rate we are moving around.<\/p>\n I hope no one send me anything too bulky for Christmas. I had to leave my suit case at Ft Lewis they won’t let us take them.<\/p>\n I have two big bags that I have my clothes in. Boy! O boy are they heavy and some times we have to carry them a long way. So I don’t want any more than I can help. I have a few pictures that I don’t no what to do and they’re just in my way. So will send them home and you can post them up stairs in my room. It will be Christmas in 3 day, it sure doesn’t seem like Christmas to me this year.<\/p>\n What will you be doing are you going out for dinner or is some one going to be out home.<\/p>\n How do you feel now? Hope you are better by now. I suppose you will be thinking about cutting wood pretty soon. I suppose it will be hard to get help to cut the wood.<\/p>\n There sure is lots of woods around here.<\/p>\n Some of the stumps are very big I would have liked to seen the trees.<\/p>\n How is the weather out home? Will there be snow for Christmas? Tell Art I said if I get more time U will write him a card. Tell him to write to me.<\/p>\n It makes me sad every time I think of good old Jerry<\/p>\n So you sold some potatoes in Dundee, It seem like they should be a good price this year with the army needing so many.<\/p>\n This is getting to be a long letter for me to write but there wasn’t much of any thing else to do. They won’t even let us go to town. But I guess they will after we are here for a while.<\/p>\n Well I will have to you my new address again. I hope I get some of my back mail soon.<\/p>\n 803 Tank Destroyer Bn. I have to go clean my gun. It is in bad shape then I will try and get some sleep as last night I didn’t get much.<\/p>\n Happy New Year To you All.<\/p>\n Felix<\/p>\n In 2015 I (Caitlin) visited Illwaco and took a few photos. I couldn’t find the exact spots where Felix camped out. But I definitely got a taste of the cold rainy atmosphere.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\t\t![\"Excerpt](\"http:\/\/caitlinpine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/1941\/12\/1941_12_11_securitymission.jpg\")
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