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up to Knoxville, then to Roanoke,
Lynchburg, Richmond & then on up
to Quantico. This place is nothing
like what I expected it to be. We
haven't as much room as we had
at Mare Island. There sure is a
bunch of wooden barracks here &
lots of Marines here & lots coming
in every day. There was over
600 on the Special & it took 14
coaches. We can look down upon
the Potomac River & there is nothing
small about it. We passed lots
of Army camps on our way &
some aviation camps. Seen about
a dozen machines up in the
air at a camp in Arkansas. We