This is the story of Air Corp. Boot Training at Tent City

Sunday Oct. 24, 1943 Left Miami Beach Hotel at 1 P.M. arrived at Tent City at 4:15 P.M.. No Hotels there is 400 tents with 8 men to a tent. For next few dats you eat with

Your army utensils and drink from a large canvass bag. The firing range is just across the street.. We fire carbine, Springfield,tommy gun, and other weaponds.I shot a 142,, does

Any-one know if that is good or bad? There were guards all around to keep us from leaving.The only toilets were slit trenches and it rained all night. We got chemical war-fare training when thay through tear gas among us and we put our gas masks on..

We left tent city Wed.27th and returned to our Miami Beach hotels. For those who were at Miami Beach do these name ring a bell. Hotel Netherland,,Nautilus,,Pancoast,,Nausaue,,

Macfadden Deaville,,Edge Water Beach,,St., Moritz,,Massonettes,,Grand Plaza,,Rendale

And for eating Hauffman Café.. Remember Nov. 18, 1943 every-one was re-stricted to there hotels ,because they lost 147 men and they took a head count. There goes my senior moment

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Seaman A. Knapp Jr. - 1/5/2001

DALLAS - Funeral services for Seaman Arthur Knapp Jr., 85, were held Friday,

Dec. 29, in Highland Park United Methodist Church.

Mr. Knapp died Sunday, Dec. 24, 2000, in Dallas.

He was a native of Lake Charles and had lived in Dallas for 45 years. He

graduated from Iowa State University with a degree in mechanical engineering in

1937. He was an Army veteran and served in World War II with the 540th Combat

Engineers. He received the Legion of Merit for his service at Anzio and retired

from the Army as a lieutenant colonel. He worked for U.S. Steel's oil well

division for 41 years.

He was a member of the Park Cities Lions Club and was a lifetime member of the

American Society of Mechanical Engineers, the 540th Combat Group Association,

the Dallas Knife and Fork Club and the Park City Club. He was an assistant

scoutmaster for Boy Scout Troop 72 for many years. He was a member of Highland

Park United Methodist Church.

Survivors include his wife, Marion Gilbert Knapp; one son, William Arthur Knapp

of Dallas; and three grandchildren.

Memorial donations may be made to Highland Park United Methodist Church, 3300

Mockingbird Lane, Dallas, TX 75205; Boy Scouts of America Circle 10 Council,

8605 Harry Hines Blvd., Dallas, TX 75201; or Baylor University Medical Center,

3500 Gaston Ave., Dallas, TX 75246, the family said.

I don't know if this is true but it is said to be. A 4-engine bomber base at Sebring Florida men were sitting around talking, when the radio started receiving a call saying "coming in on one engine, coming in on one engine". The field got ready for the plane, soon in comes a plane -- one engine. It was a fighter – a one-engine plane. Now if this were true, the commandant of the field would have to wait until the 1-engine plane pilot got out and took his flight clothes off and make sure the pilot did not out-rank him. We had some high-ranking pilots in WW2

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I had this problem twice in Air Cadet and Army Infantry

1--As a cadet I was flying Stearman and Texan going for the gold, that is wings and commision BANG WHAM they found they had too many pilots. They said I could go to any school I wanted. I looked down the list, not at the job but at the location that was close-est to to my home town that had the most beautiful girl in thr world MY WIFE.. The job was teletype but one dreary night they said pack up your clothes YOU are going to the Infantry.They needed cannon fodder in front lines.

2--As Infantry man in occupation of Taegu,Korea, our Sergeant was sent home for dis-charge. I was picked to take his place. The first day our company was out picking up butts and cleaning area. They told me to see that it was done then BANG WHAM I was told they had too many Sergeant and that is the story of life.

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