Dispatches from the U.S.S. DeKalb: February 11, 1918

Source: C. Gilbert Hazlett, February 11, 1918

Source: C. Gilbert Hazlett, February 11, 1918

February 11, 1918

Reported aboard 7.15 A.M.

Fixed up stateroom until 8.30 A.M.

Worked around office + G.S. until 2.30 P.M.

Everyone on liberty at 2.30 except Yarnall and myself.

Stayed aboard and worked in Pay Office until 10 P.M.

At 10 P.M. Gutfleisch, Yeo. 1C, came to our stateroom with fruit cake, two cans apricots + candy, and the Baker (Fisher) brot (sic) in a big cocoanut (sic) pie; we had a party until midnight, then turned in.

Source: C. Gilbert Hazlett, February 11, 1918

Source: C. Gilbert Hazlett, February 11, 1918


Notes
1. Yeo. 1C is shorthand for Yeoman First Class.

About Sean Patrick Hazlett

Finance executive, engineer, former military officer, and science fiction and horror writer. Editor of the Weird World War III anthology.
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