US Army Infantry School - Doughboy Yearbook (Fort Benning, GA)

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Je, 0 -- X sw k , N JL i s ' -? , Ag I924- uouansov CLASS HISTORY' EPTEFMBER 27-And this is Columbus on the Chattahoochee. Arrived last night from New York, after a hot, disagreeable, and cindery trip. Cou1dn't sleep at the hotel because ofthe heat, and M3 spent three nickels running the electric fan, but in vain. Took T breakfast downstairs, sliced oranges, hot cakes, and coffee, broke the law of Georgia by giving the black waiter a dimeg then went out to look over the town. Met Davy Crockett whom I saw last in a blizzard at Devens in 1920, and talked over the happy days when the steam pipes froze in our quarters and the snow was five feet deep on the ground. Took the bus to Fort Benning, and saw much dry ground, two creeks, cotton fields, tumble- down shacks, and pine woodsg and the fort looming up on the hills above the river. The first impression is that of a reformed cantonment of the vintage of '17, Reported at headquarters, and was told to come back next Monday. Rode back to Columbus with an auto salesmang he told me a car is a necessity here, and I mentioned that my Rolls Royce is being shipped from Singapore, and that I also owned a 1920 Ford .... Had lunch at a tea room, and can't see how the waitresses in such a hot climate manage to keep their com- plexions. Spent the afternoon in house hunting, and wore a set of gold bars for camouflage, Had dinner at a tea room, and afterward explored Alabama if QFIOITI the uncensored diary of Nosnio King, sometime Captain of Infantry in the Army of the United Stntcsj. ,i'iQ1',. nw -Q 'Q K,-A . . yn, ,X , ,..,,, ,rigwxf-, Y, ,T .exam LIP f , - -MMWMJ l l If i L ,f 5 , , 'UM' was X - X JA-s AA is W ' if AWW W' ' Wil., W 1 ii Y, 'ff ii if i ' 5.9 g iw iqi 1- j V4ufJ akwgwsf -1,-Pie lg, 3 gi ' Lg, J-,iiyif -f ..-L i ' 'Z NWW' L 1 gg 5 Q W ' '? at ,r,, ,Ru s Inv