Letter written by Junior Waggoner in 1944

WAGGONER, DANIELS, WHITE

Posted By: Alice Daniels (email)
Date: 1/22/2011 at 10:33:17

Moulton Weekly Tribune
THURSDAY, March 30, 1944

Here’s an interesting letter from
Junior Waggoner:
San Diego, Calif.
March 23, 1944

Dear Dick:
Well, Dick, I don't know much to write but will attempt to say some thing.
First, I guess I will tell about our barracks. They are really swell. We have good bunks with a locker at the head of the bunk. The floors are
just like those in the Moulton bank building. They are really easy to clean for Captain's inspection and they have to be really clean.
As for chow it is first rate. A lot better than what you get at Farragut, Idaho. In fact this camp makes Farragut look like the early nineties.
The schooling is swell. A little tough but something with a future. When you learn to take a torpedo apart and put it back you can do
anything from making watches to the best of cars. They are really complicated. We have 5,582 pieces of machinery to learn and just about half that many tools.
The Liberty's come along swell. You get a 36 hour Liberty every two weeks and one in midweek. The other week end you get an 8 hour Liberty.
Speaking of liberty, I met Joe White and Bob Daniels down at San Diego. I sure was glad to see someone from home. That was quite a coincidence meeting 2600 miles from home. I can just imagine what it would be meeting overseas.
I suppose Moulton is pretty dead now but I would give a lot to be back there on leave again. When we get through school we will get a five day leave with travel time. The course is only sixteen weeks long and it wont take long for that to roll around.
The entertainment is swell here. They have some picture shows and pool halls, ship's service and just about anything you want to do.
Well, I have to go on guard duty from 4 to 6 in the morning and is 12:15 now so I expect I better sign off. Oh, yes, about that 12:15
we are supposed to be in bed at 9:00 but I am, in good with the C. P. O. and am using his office. He came from Iowa, too.

Frank Junior Waggoner, S 2-c
Class 18A, Section 4,
Torpedo School, U.S.N.T.S.
San Diego (33), Calif.