February 4, 1944
Friday Night
Dear Folks,
Well I’ve got to be on duty in the supply room this evening so I am going to use some of my spare time for a good purpose. We have a lot of ammunition in here and we are going to load machine gun belts tonight. The work isn’t going to be done in here (supply room) because of the limited space and my job is just to watch things as there will be people going in and out all evening.
I shouldn’t ell you the number but you would sure be surprised at how many rounds of machine gun ammunition this company will use on the range. And they all have to be loaded into belts tonight.
It sure won’t be long now before I’ll be out on the range again. It doesn’t seem long since I was out there before but I guess it has been around seven weeks. I’m not sure but I don’t think I’ll have to make the march out there this time. There are a lot of things that will have to be taken out in trucks and Sergeant Steele says that I will possibly help on that.
We had our little bivouac last night as planned. We ate C rations for supper and then came back to the company for breakfast. It was kind of damp but the weather wasn’t too cold. I wrapped up good and warm and spent a fairly restful night.
I am not exactly dreading the range but it has been so long since I had any dry firing with the rifle, machine gun or mortar that you can easily see why I’ll be glad when it is over.
In your letters you talk about moving and I sure would like to be in a position to help you out. Not that I especially am cut out for the work but it sure hurts to think of just not being able to lend a hand. It seems that for some reason or other I have been a lot more homesick than usual. I guess I am just dreading the range and need someone to tell my troubles to.
I suppose you are able to keep things going alright without my asking about them every time so I’ll not ask this time.
Love and keep praying,
Donald
P.S. I wish you would tell me a little about my watch. Its recommendations, no. of jewels, where it came from, etc. I sure appreciate it and especially when I am out such as last night where I wake up several times during the night.