War Diaries (July 3) (nonfiction)
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Moses Sleeper: July 3, 1776
Verry warm this Morning an alarm from new york Ocasiond by the fleets coming Up through the narrows about 150 Sail anchor’d under Statons Island the whole of our Brigade turn’d out reddy to Receve them & Sent of a Regmt of 200 hundred men to Red Hook
- The Revolutionary War Diary of Moses Sleeper @ National Park Service
George S. Patton: July 3, 1917
I had lunch at the Circle Militaire with Major Degeorges of the 4th Zouaves while there we saw the officers of the 16 who had been invited to dine. Capt. Short and Burnett were among those present. Maj. Degeorges told me that in Aug 1914 there were 12000 officers of French Inf. To day 7000 are dead, 2000 maimed for life and the remaining 3000 all have been hit so far as he knows.
Mrs. Thayer of Boston & Paris and her daughter Alice Countess de Montgomery called on Gen. P. this morning the festive Alice is very nice. I got her two tickets for Les Invalides tomorrow.
—George S. Patton (war diary)
Reina Spiegel: July 3, 1941
Nothing new so far. We wear the armbands, listen to terrifying and consoling news and worry about being sealed off in a ghetto.
He visited me today! I thought I’d go mad with joy, and...confusion. He’s working at the clinic, dressing wounds. He’s sweet and wonderful, as always. It’s a shame he can’t go to university now. He’d be an excellent doctor. But he’ll be one anyway, you’ll see. We’ve arranged to meet tomorrow at the clinic. It seems a little strange, but why not? Even now that we’re wearing these armbands—the thing is to be with him.
I want Bulus to come with my whole heart. God, bring Mamma, let her be with us for better and for worse. Zygmunt’s wonderful. You will help me, Bulus and God!
—Renia Spiegel began her diary in January 1939 at the age of 15.
Arthur W. Ferguson: July 3, 1942
Number one man stood at the door, number two man ready to pivot into the door and out. Number three, four, five, etc., shuffled forward with their left foot forward, holding their balance by holding on to the cable and static line. I was twelfth man, and the door seemed miles and miles away (I know just how a man feels walking to the electric chair). I could not pick up my feet they were so heavy, and I had to shuffle to the door. My 'chute weighed (to me) 1100 pounds. I knew that this was the end, and kept saying to myself, over and over, "I've got to go out that door." Deep in my mind I remembered that not officer had ever refused to jump and I said to myself, "I'm going out the door." Suddenly, I was number three man; number two had pivoted, he's in the door, he's gone. I threw my right foot down, I was in the door, I was gone — into space. I fell for centuries, I forgot to count, then I thought, "Something should happen now" — CRASH — a ton of bricks fell on my head — no pain — I was suspended 1,000 feet above the ground—too weak to do anything but hang there—but I was happy.
- Arthur W. Ferguson, letter to Colonel Clark Williams, his sponsor at the Citadel, the Military College of South Carolina.
Mister Park: July 3, 1944
Mr. Sakaguchi, who is in charge of business at the municipal Peace Preservation Section, and Dr. Yoshioka of Nadeshiko Hospital stopped by at around 10:00 PM and inspected the business and its washing facilities.
—Diary of a Japanese Military Brothel Manager is a book of diaries written by a clerk who worked in Japanese military brothels, also known as "comfort stations", in Burma and Singapore during World War II. The author, a Korean businessman known only as Mister Park, kept a daily diary between 1922 and 1957.
George Beck: July 3, 1944
My illness is now diagnosed – neeren insünnlug und neeren strin, (inflammation of the kidneys and kidney stones), don't know what this is. Fellow in the next bed left yesterday, he came to the fence with his wife today and sent a chap for me on the sly. Shook hands and his wife gave me a new toothbrush and paste. Slipped me a photograph with name on the back. Its marvellous what risks some people will take especially here.
—George Beck,1st Battalion The Duke of Wellington's Regiment, prisoner of war (diary)
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