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