December 14, 1940

Original Source Documents:   January 18, 1943 - 201 - Vehicle Designed by Private Simon Larkin - Colonel William B. Johnson, Chief Engineering Division, Ordnance Department to Private Simon Larkin

Contributor:    Todd G. Paisley

Source:  National Archives - Philadelphia


January 18, 1943.

201 - (Simon Larkin, Pvt.)

SUBJECT: Vehicle Designed by Private Simon Larkin.

TO:            Private Simon Larkin, Company D, 54th Medical Battalion (Corps), Camp Edwards, Mass.

1. Receipt is acknowledged of your letter of December 22, 1942, with sketches on your light weight vehicle fitted as a gun carrier.

2. It is advised that correspondence, with sketches, are being forwarded to the Tank-Automotive Center, Engineering Offices, Fisher Building, Detroit, Michigan, attention, of Major H. Holtzkemper, as a matter pertaining to that Office.

WM. B. JOHNSON,
Colonel, Ordnance Department,
Chief, Engineering Division.


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