1942.3.27

Dear Mother,

I am now at the Naval Training station in Chicago. I am going to be quarantined for three weeks I understand. I wrote a letter at Detroit but forgot to mail it until it was too late. My baggage should be there pretty soon. The ruling is that we all have to write once a week. We have to sleep in hammocks in one of the barracks. I still have to have the different shots. Well I’ll sign off.

With love,

Erwin Holmquist

Note: Naval Station Great Lakes (NSGL) opened in Chicago, IL in 1911 and is the Navy’s largest training installation and the home of the Navy’s only Boot Camp. For more history on NSGL go to this link.