April 11, 1944

England

Dear Mary and All:

Received your birthday greeting today and think it’s very nice. I’m well and getting along fine and hope this finds all of you the same. Hope that mother is having a good time while she is down with you and I think it does her lots of good to get away like that. You asked if you can send me anything, and I sure would appreciate some sirloin like mother sent or if you can’t send that I’ll settle for a cold packed chicken. Anything you send will be greatly appreciated. Its lots of things we fellows out here would like to have, but none of us like asking for it or else the folks back home start worrying about us and think we are starving or something like that. We get along alright but things from home always taste better than what we have here. Space gone so I’ll close for now.

Love,

Roland