Transcription of Document FFDoc-0663.pdf

Tuesday, 2 May '44 10:30 A.M.

Dear Mom,

I left Flatbush at 6:45 Sun. nite & got to Penn Sta. at 7:40, just 10 minutes too late to make the 7:30 train. So I caught the 7:55, & luckily enough got a seat. Got to Baltimore at 11:15 but waited for 45 minutes for a connecting trolley to Holabird, so rolled into bed at 1 A.M. yesterday. At 2PM yesterday we left Balt. on the B.&O. R.R. & at 6 last night we were in Jersey City, directly across from 17 Battery Place. We had a stopover for train connections there, so stopped in & had a few beers. At 7:30 we got to Little Silver - Oceanport & waited 1½ hrs for a truck to take us to camp. As usual, nobody was expecting us, so we're just stopping someplace here in Wood temporarily. We were interviewed & reclassified again this A.M. now I'm tentatively scheduled as a "187" man: carrier and repeater communications service course. I understand that soon, perhaps today, we're to move over to Ft. Monmouth, & the interviewers said we may start school in about 3 days. The interviewer talked me out of radio repair & into carrier work, which isn't bad at all if a fella can complete the work. The T.O. calls for a lot of ratings in that training team. The course itself is from 4 to 6 mos. long - if you complete it. Then you get into team training for an indefinite time. So, if we stay at Monmouth, we'll be there for a while, as you can see. I only hope I can cope with the work.

I can't give you any return address yet, since we're not settled. But I'll send it along as soon as they drop us someplace were it looks like we'll stay a few days.

As usual, there's nothing else to say at the present, our transient condition being what it is. So I'll close for the present.

Love, as ever,

Frank.