A military pass was issued to Elaine Thompson and Claudine Lindsey in order to visit their husbands at Camp Shelby in Mississippi. Mrs. Elaine Thompson of Cornersville, Tennessee received a Christmas Greeting from the commanding officers of the 261st Infantry Company H. Vernon writes to his wife, Elaine, of his travel arrangements from New York to Camp Atterbury, Indiana and hopes that she would be able to meet him. Vernon wrote a little over two weeks later from Camp Atterbury expressing his anxious feelings that he would be discharged within a week.