Thursday morning,

April 20, 1944

 

Dear Folks:

            I have just opened your latest box and I’m writing this to let you know everything arrived in good shape. It was the one containing the Milky Ways, wash cloth and the Lifebuoy soup. Thanks very much, everything is swell.

            The box came yesterday but I didn’t have time to open it until today. It was late when I got in so I didn’t open it.

            Last night we had a movie inside one of the tents as it was raining. It was a comedy with Red Shelton in “Whistling In Brooklyn” and it was very funny. We got a lot of laughs out of the thing. We usually have the shows outside but the rain drove us inside last night.

            The night before last we had a softball game with one of the battalions and we won 7-5. It was the first real game I have played since Wright’s and I had a lot of fun. I got 2 hits, walked once and made a couple of catches in the field. All in all I had a pretty good time at the game.

            In yesterdays mail I also received two new issues of the Saturday Evening Post. They were addressed to the old “APO” but I got them pretty quickly. Maybe you could drop them a card giving my correct “APO” so they would have the thing right? Incidentally I’m glad you got the subscription for me-the magazines give me a lot of good reading and I never need look around for something to read.

            By the way are those “scrap books” still around that I used to keep? I mean the ones with all the airplane fixtures in them? I just wondered about them.

            There isn’t very much other news that I can tell you. The surprise I told you about should be here any day now and I’ll get it off to you right away. I hope you like it. It’s about time I gave you a present after all the gifts you have been sending me.

             I was in to visit bath and it is a pretty nice place. It doesn’t compare with London however and London is still the best place I’ve been to over here. Simpson and I really had a lot of fun when we were in there. By the way Ed wanted me to drop his mother a line so I’ll do that right after I finish this. He just wants me to tell her that Ed is looking good and feeling very well, so I’ll do that for him.

            I’d like to get some more of those caramels from Weida’s if you could get them for me.

                                                                                    Love,

                                                                                                Joe