Letters from a Sailor

Letters from a Sailor
Clark "Buss" Gerdes, USN

Saturday, April 20, 2013

18 July 1950
Dear Babe:
"I don't have any too much but what I do have is all yours if you want it."

Note: This is the last letter from Buss this year. The next post will be the first of approximately 54 letters he wrote from a four-month tour of duty aboard the U.S.S. Halsey Powell beginning on August 4, 1951 during the Korean War.

Buss and Lee circa 1942
Buss and Lee on their 'bikes' circa 1942

Lee Harrington was Buss' best man.


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