Manila

October 24, 1945

My Dearest Darling Wife,

Hello sweet little angel, how is my darling little wife. Awful, awful sweet I know and fine I hope. You had better be dearest. Well dolly no sweet letters for about three days now but I am sure hoping that some comes in before the day is over. Gee darling your precious letters mean the world and all to me and they are so darn sweet. They make me so awful, awful happy dearest and make me feel so wonderful all over. It just gives me the grandest feeling al over when I can get your precious letters dear. Gosh Honey won’t it be wonderful when we are back in each others arms and won’t have to write letters any more. I sure hope you are hearing from me all right now dearest. You are so darn sweet dolly and I love you so awful darn much.

I am feeling fine now dearest and getting along all right in every way now. I have plenty of everything now dolly. Well Honey it is raining here right now. It has been pretty how all day to. I have been working on the tractor all day and now I am going to work on a ship tonight. They are trying to reconvert some of the Liberty ships so they can take troops back home so we are going tonight to work and help get it done so we will get home that much sooner.

We are still on the alert dear but I don’t think anything is going to come of it now. We were supposed to get out of here tomorrow and today they told us that we might be out by the first of the month and we might now so that’s the way it stands now. It just seems like they have so darn many new and things are so messed up they don’t know what they are doing.

Well Honey this is a day later. I started this letter yesterday evening and had to go to work before I finished up dear. Boy Honey what a day I put in from six yesterday morning until six this morning and I just got about four hours sleep this morning so I am still pretty tired. I don’t know whether this will speed up our return home or not but we have hopes. This damn way the army has of doing things is screwed up just like it always is. There is guys with sixty points leaving here and here we still sit and about two hundred and fifty of the men have ninety seven points. I guess we are still on the alert and from the rumors it sounds like it will be at least ten days before we will ever thing about getting out of here. I think they just build a guys hopes up and then they forget all about you for a few more days. Gee darling I want to get home so darn bad I don’t know what to do. I get so darn mad and disgusted with things that I don’t know what to do sometimes. I can’t sit still for five minutes, just up and out of the tent and then back, boy it sure does get a guy down and most of the guys are just like me. Maybe it won’t be to much longer before we get out of here though.

Well Honey you said it went all over the office about me coming home before long. I sure hope it isn’t very far off now dearest and I am still hoping and praying I will make it by Christmas. I’ll bet Doke and Margie was really talking things over, wondering what you was going to do dearest. Gosh Honey won’t it be wonderful when we can really start our life together.

Honey dear about the money you don’t have to bring that much if you don’t want to. You can just bring fifty if you want to dolly cause like you said dear we can go right by the bank and get what we want to when we leave our room. I expect it will cost us quite a bit but if you don’t want to carry that much dear and we run short we can always take a little run out to the bank.

Honey dear you are so darn sweet and I love you so awful, awful much and you know I always will dolly. Gee darling we are so happily married and love each other more every day. Honey isn’t it wonderful to know that we will be back in each others arms before so very long and be able to hold each other so awful darn tight and kiss each other so often. Honey you are so darn sweet and so awful pretty from the tops of my beautiful blond hair to the tips of my sweet little toes and all my very own. Honey I know God hears our prayers and will keep us safe and bring us together as soon as possible now. Honey dear please take wonderful care of my precious parts, gee but they are wonderful and I love them so darn much. Yours are fine dolly miss you so awful, awful darn much. [edited for content]. Honey you are the sweetest and most adorable little wife in this world and I love you so darn much and you know I always will dolly.

Well sug I guess I had better close for this time and I’ll write you as soon as possible now dearest. I’ll be looking for your precious letters now dolly. Please be awful, awful careful now dolly and take wonderful care of my sweet little wife. Remember now dolly chin up and always happy. Tell all hello dear.

Love and more love to my sweet adorable little angel.

Loads and loads of love to my dearest darling wife I love so much.