May 10, 1943

Dear Mother:

            I still haven’t received this last Star. I’m mailing this letter in town this afternoon. I wonder how soon you [will] get it.

            What did Harold all have to say and how was his girl friend? Did he like the colored slides?

            It certainly is hot down here. But it rained plenty early this morning and it is nice and cool now.

            I don’t do anything here on my off days except a little P.T. in the morning and go to town in the afternoon.

            Enclosed are four pictures of the camp here. [They’re] Taken from the second floor of my barracks. In the one where it says S.A. in the distance you can see the tall building next to the telephone pole in the center, 12 miles away. The Star should come any day now.

            I guess I’ll quit now and leave.

                                                            Your son,

                                                                        Melvin