Naval Air Station

Oakland City

June 18, 1946

Dear Mom and Pop:

Well I’m finally on my way to Bikini (I hope). We’re supposed to leave on a plane at 10:00 tomorrow. I hope I don’t get air sick. (ha ha). 20 fellows on our draft left last night and the rest of us leave tomorrow. I’ve been waiting almost a year to get overseas, and now I’m finally going. I guess pretty soon I’ll be in a hurry to come back to the state. Well anyway the rest of my enlistment will seem to go faster than if I was still in the state.

Well I hope Pop is back to work now, and I also hope that things start to run smoothly for you. Well I’m going to close these few lines now. I’ll write again as soon as I have a chance. All my love.

Alfred