[language
warning] “Well Son, I finally made it. I am now in ‘Der Fatherland.’ I knew I
should have taken more interest in that year of College German we took....
“We
arrived in Le Havre France not too long ago and from there went to a camp
called 'Lucky Strik' We then came
through Belgium and now here in Germany.
We came through Aachen and brother they really knocked the living hell
out of that time for that matter about every town over here has had the hell
knocked out of it. We have been in
action here in Germany, have been fixing the guns at the Krauts.”
--Letter
from Everett “Sammy” Samuelson, Germany, to my father, Boulder, Colo., April
19, 1945. “Lucky Strike” was one of the
“cigarette camps” established by allied forces near Le Havre in northwestern
France, across the channel from England.
Aachen is a German town near Belgium and the Netherlands. Samuelson was my father’s classmate and a
member of his pep club and singing quartet at Southwestern College. He was an army corporal, leading a mobile gun
team in the field artillery.
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