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Nile Kinnick diary of service in the U.S. Naval Reserve Air Corps, December 3, 1941-February 25, 1942

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on the half shell ala Rockefeller - they were excellent and should have been for the price. About 8:45 we took out for Mobile, Ala. with the intention of staying all night there. It rained to beat the band most of the way and lightning intermittently lit up the whole countryside. Despite the rain we were dry and comfortable inside my good old '41 Ford, listening to fine music from the radio all the while. We passed through Biloxi and Gulfport, famous resort towns on the gulf, and even at night you could tell it was beautiful country. There were no rooms to be had at the hotels in Mobile so we kept going until we hit a nice looking cabin camp 7 or 8 miles east of there. We got a fine cabin with two double beds for four bucks. It then being 1 AM and raining pretty hard we hit the hay at once. Quite a life - now here, now there, seeing new places & new people - I like it.

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on the half shell ala Rockefeller - they were excellent and should have been for the price. About 8:45 we took out for Mobile, Ala. with the intention of staying all night there. It rained to beat the band most of the way and lightning intermittently lit up the whole countryside. Despite the rain we were dry and comfortable inside my good old '41 Ford, listening to fine music from the radio all the while. We passed through Biloxi and Gulfport, famous resort towns on the gulf, and even at night you could tell it was beautiful country. There were no rooms to be had at the hotels in Mobile so we kept going until we hit a nice looking cabin camp 7 or 8 miles east of there. We got a fine cabin with two double beds for four bucks. It then being 1 AM and raining pretty hard we hit the hay at once. Quite a life - now here, now there, seeing new places & new people - I like it.