Tuesday Evening, August 15, 1944
Hello Folks,
Now I’ll try to get you at least a little letter. There’s not too much time but I sure want to write you tonight. I went to a show tonight and I think I should have been writing instead. There wasn’t anything wrong about the show but I hardly believe it was worth two hours of my time. I suppose I would messed around enough though that I would have only got a half hour or so extra sleep anyway so maybe I don’t need to worry too much about wasting the evening.
So far this hasn’t been such a hard week and there’ll be work but I don’t expect anything extra for the rest of it. Yesterday and today we spent running problems in an area pretty close to here. We are supposed to truck out to the range tomorrow sometime and after bivouacing tomorrow night we will run some sort of a fire problem Thursday.
We’ll be back here Thurs. night and then Friday and Saturday will be spent in a similar matter – bivouac Friday night and then run a problem Saturday. Only I don’t think we’ll use live ammunition.
I was very glad to get your letter yesterday. Richard won’t have so much longer to do the painting so it could be worse. There’s no use denying the fact that factory work’s any snap even at best.
I don’t quite understand about the watch. It looks to me like Leo would at least make the watch work after charging us so much. I don’t know how it worked before you sent it but it sure never worked after I got it. A watch that won’t work well will be pretty hard to get rid of anyway.
I was really a well equipped man in the problem today. I was carrying both a radio and a bazooka. A bazooka is as light or lighter than a rifle though so I wasn’t weighed down as much as you might expect. I also felt pretty good about getting to use the radio again.
I got three tribunes, so I’ll have a little news to catch up on. I hope you are all getting along O.K. Pardon this scribbling tonight but I am writing on my lap on a magazine that keeps bending on me.
Lots of Love, Donald
I ordered some air mail stamps but the mail man forgot to get them so I don’t have any yet.