Letter from Donald W. Renn to Jesse Dorsey, April 16, 1944.

Description:	Renn writes that he has not gotten any Speedometers in a while but he supposes Dorsey is busy. The weather has been good and they have been hiking a lot. They have been in the field all week and sleeping on the hard damp ground in tents. They had to go 50 yards through wire fences with bullets flying over their heads. He has 10 or 11 more weeks of unit training. He ran into Kenneth Kasse and Myron Vaught. This letter is part of a large group of letter written to or by Jesse G. Dorsey during World War II. Dorsey ran the community house for the Louisville Cement Company in Speed, Indiana. Being a veteran of World War I, he knew the value of providing support to the troops. He wrote letters and sent the company newsletter (Speedometer) to several hundred service men and women during the war. The community house also hosted weekend parties for soldiers from Fort Knox, Kentucky during the war.
Origin:	1944-04-16
Created By:	Renn, Donald W., 1925-2019
Source:	http://indianamemory.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p1819coll10/id/4079
Collection:	Jesse G. Dorsey WWII Correspondence
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Geography:	Hattiesburg, Forrest County, Mississippi 31.2957602,-89.3904943
Subjects:	Military trainingSpeedometer (Louisville Cement Company employee newsletter)CorrespondenceHikingKasse, Kenneth M., 1925-2010Vaught, MyronCamp Shelby (Hattiesburg, Miss.) Soldiers--CorrespondenceUnited States. Army--Military lifeWorld War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives

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