June 18, 1945

Letter number 24

Dear Billy,

([I] Am sending a package tomorrow). Received the letter from you last weekend you mentioned about the weather. It is very warm and sultry here, sun was 100 so you can imagine and poor Harold did not have an air conditioned train coming home and no windows opened in the train and all people standing in the aisles, so let me say that traveling is just awful.

I hear that you and your brother are corresponding in French, I tell you some boys you two (maybe).

Harold brought home two chickens the only time when eat decent is when he brings something home, some farmer brings them to the base and the officers buy them to take home there is no poultry at all the only thing I could get was lamb kidneys for Sunday dinner I was going to fix them with onions but the chickens saved the day.

Mommy