"If
it wasn't so cold here it wouldn't be so bad but it's so cold everybody has the
old ‘J. B. hack’ Water froze in our hut
last night."
--Letter
from Bill Stanley, Jefferson Barracks, Mo., to my father, Winfield, Kans.,
Tuesday, March 2, 1943. Bill was a
private and fellow college student of my father’s. “J.B.” must refer to Jefferson Barracks,
where Bill was stationed, about five miles south of St. Louis. In the early morning of March 2, 1943, the temperature went down to about 10 degrees at Bill's army post. (This is based on temperatures in St. Louis. See weathersource.com).
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