TRANSCRIBED FROM THE COURIER INDEX DECEMBER 20, 1918 P. 1
November 29
I have been working on new planes-the Liberty-for two and a half months, but am now overhauling old rotary motors. I was in the machine gun department of the Liberties, putting two guns on the front which shoot through the propellers.
I will tell you a few things about my trip coming over. We were seventeen days on the boat. We left New York on July 15, at four o’clock in the afternoon. Went up to Halifax, N. S., staying two days waiting for our other transports. We were chased by subs and went away north up the coast of Greenland, seeing icebergs. There were twenty-seven boats in our convoy. Besides the battleship and destroyers. There were a few U.S. late type destroyers and they gave the subs h-l. We were on the Saxonia, the largest Cunard liner. Off the coast of Ireland at three o’clock in the afternoon four subs were sighted. The Saxonia sunk one and the destroyers two. One got away. The sub sank within five hundred feet of us, and all on board were either drowned or killed by the explosion. We landed at Liverpool and crossed England on a train.
I hope the censors will not object to what I have said, as you are anxious to know what I am doing, and how I am getting along.
NOTES: This partial letter was written by Dunham Mulkey to his parents C. Bruce and Capitole Mulkey. He was born in Arkansas on January 9, 1899 and died in Dallas, Texas on April 3, 1936. He is buried in the Cedar Heights Cemetery in Marianna, Arkansas. He departed Brest, France on June 19. 1919 onboard the Charleston. He arrived in New York, NY on June 19, 1919. He was listed as serving as a Cpl. in 2 Co. 4th Mechanics Regiment, Air Service.
TRANSCRIBED ADIN TYGART
November 29
I have been working on new planes-the Liberty-for two and a half months, but am now overhauling old rotary motors. I was in the machine gun department of the Liberties, putting two guns on the front which shoot through the propellers.
I will tell you a few things about my trip coming over. We were seventeen days on the boat. We left New York on July 15, at four o’clock in the afternoon. Went up to Halifax, N. S., staying two days waiting for our other transports. We were chased by subs and went away north up the coast of Greenland, seeing icebergs. There were twenty-seven boats in our convoy. Besides the battleship and destroyers. There were a few U.S. late type destroyers and they gave the subs h-l. We were on the Saxonia, the largest Cunard liner. Off the coast of Ireland at three o’clock in the afternoon four subs were sighted. The Saxonia sunk one and the destroyers two. One got away. The sub sank within five hundred feet of us, and all on board were either drowned or killed by the explosion. We landed at Liverpool and crossed England on a train.
I hope the censors will not object to what I have said, as you are anxious to know what I am doing, and how I am getting along.
NOTES: This partial letter was written by Dunham Mulkey to his parents C. Bruce and Capitole Mulkey. He was born in Arkansas on January 9, 1899 and died in Dallas, Texas on April 3, 1936. He is buried in the Cedar Heights Cemetery in Marianna, Arkansas. He departed Brest, France on June 19. 1919 onboard the Charleston. He arrived in New York, NY on June 19, 1919. He was listed as serving as a Cpl. in 2 Co. 4th Mechanics Regiment, Air Service.
TRANSCRIBED ADIN TYGART