This is the last letter from Fort Benning, GA before he is transferred to Fort Jackson, South Carolina to join the 87th Infantry Division.
March 16, 1944
Thursday, afternoon
Dear Folks,
I hope it doesn’t make any difference because I am going to tell you where we are going. They made a public announcement of it and so it seems not to be a secret. I’ll be there by the time you read this anyway. We are going to the 87th Infantry Division at Ft. (or Camp I don’t know for sure which) Jackson, South Carolina.
I didn’t want to be put in the Infantry but it seems that there is where I’ll be. Of course, there are a lot of jobs that wouldn’t be too bad but I don’t know whether or not they will want me in one of these. But I still think all things will turn out for the best.
We stopped training at noon today and we are supposed to move out sometime Friday. We’ll spend most of the time between now and then cleaning up things around here, and turning in equipment.
We had a pretty hard day on Monday and then yesterday I did K.P. It seems that we worked harder for the first half of this week than we did during basic training.
Don’t worry about me and I’ll write you more when I know more to write. I’m not very windy today so I’ll sign off.
Love, Donald