Dear Hic –

            Just received your letter of Aug 30 forwarded here from Oran.

            I was very glad to hear from you especially since Dotty wrote me your folks hadn’t heard from you for several weeks.

            Yes I expect to be stateside in 46. Very early in 46. To be exact in January. That is according to my calculations.

            We have just about finished sending men home on Green Project from ETO and CBI. and now we start on dear old M.T.O. We will start at the eastern end of the division Cairo Egypt and empty the bases slowly comming west through Bengasi, Tripoli, Tunis, Algiers, Oran, and Casa. It will probably take about for months so thats why I figure to be home sometime in January. January will also give me eighteen months over. I know it isn’t very much but by Jan it will be enough for so an inactive theatre as this.

            Yes Pal just like you say I won’t waste any time when I get home so if you expect to kiss the bride you better try to move your birthday back a couple months and get home in January.

            Here is a choice piece for you Selma Bilker is getting married Oct 7. Marring some nice guy I hear. Just graduated dental school. Makes me feel old as hell. How about you?

            Yes Hic it really was a terrific blow hearing about Mrs. Levitt. It really must have been tough on it. It was a hell of a home comming.

            So you had a little fling with a spanish girl eh? How far did you fling it?

            As for me I am getting tired of looking at these french girls Sure they are beautiful. Nice legs and nice … well any way they are nice. But I want to get home to a certain American girl.

            The girls in Oran were from Algeria which is the country (Oran is the city) and the language French which here the Natives are Morocan and speak a good deal of Spanish.

            My french is pretty good + I can carry on a conversation if we speak slowly.

             My folks are all O.K. and I don’t suppose the Ridge has changed much. I hear Nate expects a discharge soon and Ben expects to be home soon.

            Don’t have a damn bit of dirt to give you.

            Hope you can make our wedding ni January. Hope I can make it too.

                                                                        Let me hear from you soon.

                                                                                    at 205 lbs

                                                                                                Saul