Co D. 532 Q.M. Sero.

B.N. a.P.o. 545 Los Angelos

California

June 14, 1943

Dear Mother,

Just a few lines to let you know I received your letter. Since I know you are alright I feel better. I see you are getting into my business. Well last month I wanted to see California so I visited Los Angelos, the Alabama Club, the Hollywood Canteen and a few other places and over spent. Now we won’t get paid this month, not until the first of August. They are holding our pay for furlough money. Pinky wrote me. She is living in Annapolis. Now 57. Show street also. Grace wrote me and sent me her picture. Pinky works at the Navy yard makes $42 a week. She is going to send me cigarettes also Grace. Pinky said her house is rented out. Buck and his wife lives in town. Uncle Tom lives in Baltimore. Aunt Victoria has a boy in the Navy in Norfolk Virginia. Payra has my address. He told Grace he would write me this week. That’s all the news I have from down home. Tell Gladys don’t go down there this summer because I’ll be home on my furlough soon. We have to take our basic training over again. We were training for Africa. The war is over there now and we will have to get trained over again. By that time I hope the war will be over. Tell all hello and I will take my furlough from here. You know the fare is 70 and sixty nine cents not counting food for six days. So you see why I try to save. Because when they tell me to leave I don’t want to have to write to you and wait, I want to be on my way. With this next pay I’ll be ready. I’ll catch a Cab in Canden. How are you making out with the rent? Answer soon.

Randolph