12 Aug 1944

Saturday

Darling Mine,

Where do you manage to get the typewriter these days? I notice the last several letters have been by benefit of Corona or something. I must admit that I sort of like your typewritten letters best. You get more down before you quit. And about mail, I sure cannot understand your recent complaints about mail. I have been writing regularly. The only lapse has been that one trip. I know that they are erratic of delivery at times. Doesn’t fool Pop on that my little prune.

I enjoyed the card from the Hastey’s. Gee, Tom is always just about to take over something big. Baby Doll a base commander is a base commander and that is that. They can have Scott Field and then some. It is in the hottest part of the US known to man and it stays hot there for the maximum time and you can count on it getting hot one hundred percent. Now comes winter and Baby Doll it is one of the coldest parts of the US known to man or woman. And you can count on that one hundred percent also. St. Louis is not to far away and is a good city but deliver us from there or those parts. I am glad though if they got something that they like. California was the best I’m thinking.

We had some rather good fights here last night between the Army and the Navy. The boys fought hard and every one of the nine bouts was exciting. Those were the first I have seen in a long time and I rather enjoyed them. Gene Tunney was there and sitting on my right so now we are big buddies ( ??? )When I say big I mean big. The guy is rather nice to know or talk to and very pleasant even if I do not agree with a lot of the tripe that he has written for the service men. Against smoking in a loud way but is chairman of the National Distillery. Well, I guess it would be too much to ask consistency. He sure does not look his age by at least ten years either.

Now as to the length of time that I will stay down here after the war my Toots- - don’t talk like that--. I have night more months to put in my tour here. Air crew personnel and that means me return at the end of twenty four months or close there bouts. Of course in a job like mine you have to get replaced, but you can count on the fact that at twenty one months when you send in the replacement names that yours truly will be working on replacement idea with the general so that Pop can return to the US and his loved one. That means you little Sugar after the war---I never.

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Say you don’t want to upset a guy do you? That paragraph about General McDaniels could do it you know. All about his getting a tropical disease and kicking the bucket after a nice stay here, and such a way to put in my cheerful friend. A “Anyway McDaniels is dead” Oh me, what have I done and they are such little too.

Say about this pink paper. How long do you think that it will last? Of course the fact of hearing from you is real important part but just a thought about the pink paper. It sure looks sickly by the time it gets here- -maybe it fades out some or something. I have a hard time connecting my Diane and that paper up. It sort of startles me each time a letter arrives.(That is no excuse to stop writing). Don’t feel hurt darling but my, my.

I have spoken about a number of things in the last several letters that I more or less expected some comment on, but maybe it is that you have now gotten them yet though I cannot imagine it. Or maybe I am little previous. Time will tell.

Sweetheart mine I am glad that the heat seems to have broken judging from your remarks. I have read in the papers about it being terrible all over the US this summer, one of those years. Things remain the same here. Rain and sun, rain and sun, and with the usual steam in between.

I must close my darling but I send you all my love and devotion dear hear. I love you and sure as the devil miss you all the time.

Edwin