532nd QM company France 53

Dear Readers,,not much to say about the post but Ill talk about the Flochets..Phillip

                                                                         JMJ
532nd QM Company
Jan 53 to Nov 53
Ingrandes France
Phillip Meyer S/sgt Ret.
                                                                   532nd QM Co,
..Life in a way was simple on this Army post..The main area was very muddy so it was difficult to even have a platoon formation. As It was we got up early ate breakfast then we walk down the boardwalk to  the warehouses to go to work, In these warehouses were all type can foods,,Huge bags coffee, Just behind each warehouse was the railroad tracks...The main job loading up the cars. They had fork lifts and we had french civilians who work to load the cars.As my French got better I could tell them the number of the car to load, but they did not like a 19 year old telling them what to do...Ill never forget as I went along learning the size of the cans,,A number 10 usually had juice in it..A number 303...each can had a number and you would associate what was in the can with the number..How could you tell the food was bad by the bulge on the top of the can then a whole box would be thrown away..One day I decided to drive a fork lift. I went through the huge door by the train cars but I put it up to high so when I backed up it hit the drain on the building. I lowered the lift and put it away.One day it rained and there was two places were water was coming out of the broken drain,,One day we had the "Red Ball express" on maneuver..it was a Beach to shore operation.
(Like world war 2)..Another day they said there would be a small USO show so we went out on the muddy field where they had a small wooden stage around a foot high near the main road,A big black car came and out came "Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis" they did a little show and they were on there way..
Like I said life was very simple..After work an Army bus made its one trip to town and its one trip back,,
In those days I was receiving letters from Virginia Grossi who lived in Providence Rhode Island,.....
Any time I had free time I went to town..It was a simple post..No movie a EM club I never went in once.The Chapel..a small PX...
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