HEADQUARTERS

VI BOMBER COMMAND, SIXTH AIR FORCE

APO 825, C/O POSTMASTER, NEW ORLEANS, LA.

 

II Sept 1944

Monday

 

Darling Mine,

 

            It is just a little after seven AM and I know that there in FT. W that you have not cracked an eye as yet and won’t for a spell. I have though, and want to write you this morning though I have no letter to answer. I wrote you a rather long one the last time and have exhausted my news and discussion but just the same I want to chat with you so if I repeat myself, don’t fret little one.

           

I had wanted to play golf yesterday (Sunday) and got all set to do so but the rain set in early yesterday in the AM and rained all day thus busting up the days plans. The tail end of the rainy season is of course upon us so there will be much of it from now on. I get sick of the mud and rain before it is done, I can tell you. The rest of the day was spent just lolling around with a movie in the afternoon. I have gotten the book you mentioned, “Burma Surgeon” and I am about half way thru it already. I really enjoy it and I guess the best part is still to be read. Geo.L came in the evening and sat around awhile for a talk. He went sail fishing yesterday but all he got was wet for it rained out there also. Thus went Sunday.

           

I of course am sitting around all anticipation about the request from Fort Worth for my services. Please tell me if you hear anything. I still do not have the faintest idea if I can get released. On top of that we changed CG’s of the Air Force over the week end. Maj. Gen. Bruce Butler is to arrive soon and take over. I don’t know what that will entail for me as far as release goes. If it comes through before he arrives Geo. L (acting) said he would let me go. However that situation will last only a few days of course. I wonder if they have really set the machinery in motion or am I foolishly getting “het” up over nothing. I wrote Ken a letter as I told you and he should have it today. Therefore I should hear from him in a few days/If you talk to him tell him that it can be worked if they will stick to their guns on request. That they have been refused before from here and yet have been released in the end if one stuck at it. The fact that they have twice sent my name in for the ANSOL School is more or less a release in my mind or at least indicates that they will be willing to release me.

           

Well anyway if that does not materialize there is that October-November session that we have planned my dearest. And that I am looking forward to and no fooling. I am anxious to hear what your plans are in respect to that dear. I am going to be so glad to see you dearest one. To wrap my arms about you and breathe that smell of you in, to feel your warmth and to know that you are really there in my arms. That is going to be good. And this time barring fate it will be for a nice long leave. Any plans that you make will of course have to be verified from here dear. In short I will have to send you a wire or something just prior to your leaving there so that you will really know that I am leaving and that some unforeseen something has not interfered. Maybe it would be better for me to actually leave and let you know when I arrive in Miami which will be only six hour later and then you could depart at once and only be one day behind me. Of course I don’t like that very well for I would like you there when I arrive but there are so many things go astray now days I wouldn’t want you to make that trip all the way over and have some “ball up” happen. We have a spell to talk it over still as it is almost a month off yet. And then to guess that you have some very definite ideas on the subject so I had better wait to hear them.

           

I hope that there is a letter from you today but I will have to wait till this afternoon to see. I just know that you will have some plans or information in it for me. Darling if I could only tell you how much I really love you and adore you I would be relieved some. These words all look and sound the same and seem so inadequate for the purpose. But I do darling so very much and long for you so. The time is passing mighty slowly and I am becoming very impatient. Darling love again and Adios till later. Cross you fingers and wish for the best.

                                                            Edwin