Powhatan H. Clarke letter to Jane - March 12, 1918
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No 1 March 12
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Look out for millionaire captains especially in the ordinance. I always have my suspicions. You seem to be meeting many interesting people. I am meeting many people but they are not interesting. The more I see of the Latin race the more I am confused. They are so
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[page 2] Englishmen. You cant imagine how superior and overbearing most of them are. Of course there are exceptions but I am speaking generally. Please let me know the names of some of your friends over here. As yet I have met no nice people except a few officers kind of officially and I would like to know some of the people. There is nothing like asking for a thing and I hope you wont think I am very forward but would it be too much trouble to send me a letter or so. Its possible this writing is worse than usual because I am writing on my knee. But if you can read my ordinary writing I guess you can read this.
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You said there were two things that would be funny coincidence if I went to France. Well here I am please let me have them. Also I have simply got to know who the young lady was that got a shock when she discovered that I had a few extra pennies. If you don
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[page 3] more cynical every day. Goodness only knows what I shall be when I get back. This game certainly shows up unexpected flaws. I have discovered many more unpleasant things in myself since I have been in it and too many in others. You certainly show the right spirit by keeping on writing even when you don
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I got that precious box of Phillip Morris and I don
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[page 4] I think my game has improved. Speaking of the Red Cross there is no one I admire more than than the girls who come over for Red Cross work. Not the nurses, I mean the others. They have all sorts of hardships and the work they do is very hard. We have a rest station here and we use it as an officers club. The men have the Y.M.C.A., the girls cook wait on the tables mend clothes in fact everything they can no matter what it is. The place is very cosily fixed up and is a perfect heaven here. Hope Bob
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What is Bill [ms illegible: 1 wd] doing? The last I heard he was headed for West Point. By the way are you trying to make me out a little plaster saint? Please don
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[page 5] If you are to be a chasse pilot you are ready for the front. If you are not going to be a fighting pilot you will probably not go all the way through but are sent to other schools for the different classes of work. Some of the branches are now considered of equal importance with the fighting if not more so. I havn
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We do a lot of shooting. Shot guns at clay pigeons and pistols and machine guns at stationary and moving targets. I have had no flying as yet and don
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[page 6] Our quarters are very crowded but we manage to make ourselves fairly comfortable. We have about everything we want in the line of necessities but of course luxuries are nix. We wouldn
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letters went through. As ever Powie, Address 1st Lieut PHC Sig. R.C.A.S. Unattached H.P.O 724 A.E.F. via New York. O.K. Powhatan H. Clarke 1st Lieut. Sig. R.C.A.S.
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| Title | Powhatan H. Clarke letter to Jane - March 12, 1918 |
| Creator | Clarke, Powhatan H. |
| Source | Clarke, Powhatan H. Letter to Jane. 12 March 1918. Clarke, Powhatan Papers. A0293. Missouri History Museum, Saint Louis, Missouri. |
| Description | Powhatan Clarke wrote to Jane about his life in France. He also discussed flight training and his dislike of Latin people. Clarke served with the 21st Aero Squadron and Labor Bureau A.E.F. during Word War I. |
| Subject LCSH | World War, 1914-1918--Military life--United States; Soldiers--Recreation; Military training |
| Subject Local | World War I; WWI; United States. Army. Aero Squadron, 21st |
| Site Accession Number | A0293 |
| Contributing Institution | Missouri History Museum |
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| Date Original | March 12, 1918 |
| Language | English |