1936
A jaunt up to New Haven on January's first Saturday night to witness the opening game of the hockey season convinced us that the boys from Hanover can still handle themselves on ice. They trounced Yale 12-8.
.... Another evidence of Hanover's cold North spell was a visit with Sgt. Frank Kappler, on furlough from the famed Ski Troopers of Camp Hale, Colo. In the pink of condition, he expects to start moving again soon.
Mr. Shurts wrote to pass on this news: "On November 16 Fred was wounded in the left arm and side, as near as we can find out. After passing through six hospitals in France, he was flown to England. In addition to his wounds, he also has had a bad case of trench foot. At the time of being wounded, he was with the 4th Armored Division of the Third Army. He" writes that he is coming along fine and that the Army hospitals are tops." His present address can be had by writing to the secretary, or the Records Office in Hanover. Take care of yourself, Fred, and good luck.
Capt. Ed Hyde's V-letter written December 1 from "Somewhere in the Netherlands" accounts for Ed's having seen a good deal of France—plus. He says:
After much hectic work and frequent moves during the Normandy campaign (we came in on D4), with occasional moderate excitement in the line of snipers and shelling, we set up for a quiet pleasant time near Versailles and Paris. Visited both several times and loved them. What a town Paris is! Think it combines the new and the old about as perfectly as possible. Surely hated to leave that place, but some time ago moved north to this spot a short distance from the Siegfried line. We were installed in a fine building which was formerly a high pressure Nazi school. We have thanked our lucky stars since, for the weather is past believing much of the time—rain, sleet, cold and mud, mud, mud Have been working pretty hard in the shock ward since the big push up here started. We see ail the most seriously wounded men, and I've a really tremendous feeling of admiration for the just plain guts of the average American doughboy. Those boys can really. take it. It's really very satisfying work all in all when I can see men every day who I can feel pretty certain would never live to see the old lady on Bedloe's Island, if it weren't for the care and treatment we can give them.
Thanks, Ed, for writing, and all the best. We see by the papers that there's a new book out, First of the Many, by Capt. John R. McCrary and David E. Scherman Dave Sanderson is assistant sales manager of what sounds to us like a branch of Armstrong Cork. His address: Manufacture de Corcho Armstrong S.A., Palamo's (Gerona), Spain. .... To those of us who, like ourselves, have always regarded Hesty Hirst as a throughand-through New Hampshirite, it is quite a surprise to hear he is now located in West Barrington, R. I.(a 6 Salisbury Rd.). What's doing, Hesty?
We are indebted to Mrs. Walter Mertz for letting us know that Walt, now an ensign, is Supply and Disbursing Officer on one of the newest and largest of the destroyer escorts. Walter Jr., born September si, joins his two sisters, age four and one-half, and two, to make the Mertz clan five Various communiques from Capt. Pep Mintz establish the fact that he is commanding officer of a Supply Depot in Italy. He has had a few minutes' conversation with the Pope in Rome, went swimming at Capri, attended a real Italian opera and underwent many line ofduty experiences that will have to wait to be retold.
M/Sgt. Henry Newell, stationed three floors below us, graduated from the Information and Education course at the School for Personnel Services, Lexington, Va., in December. ....Johnny Groh, recently promoted to major in the Medics at 3rd Air Force headquarters, has been serving as assistant surgeon in charge of the Aviation Medicine Division at headquarters in Tampa, Fla.
Recent '36 Service promotions: Ens. Bill Gibson, Lt. Harold Scholl, Capt. Herm Dock and Lt. (jg) Ed Brooks.
The fiscal department advises that you will no longer be receiving bills for class dues ($3.50 for this year, or $7 for this year and next). You shouldn't have any objections, therefore, to a reminder that Jocko Morrison will greatly appreciate your remittance at your early convenience.
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