Oct 18, 1943
Dear Folks,
I haven’t had much time but I want to let you know mostly about my watch question. If this gets there before Thursday or Friday I would like for Dady to look in Indianapolis for a watch. I am afraid that my gruen would get broken very easily. A service watch would also have a luminous dial and let me know how the time was coming through the night. For sentimental reasons I would certainly hate to ruin my good watch.
While I am in an asking mood I am going to ask for a few more things. I need another tooth brush and maybe my old one too (for cleaning my rifle), if it is still aournd; two or 3 more hangers; and a few pairs of khaki sox.
I am glad to hear that you got my war bond. I didn’t get any pay for last month because it took all to pay for my allotments. At least I know now that I got credit for it.
I haven’t got much news to tell except that we kept busy but didn’t work very hard today and that we are going on another short march tomorrow.
I got your airmail letter today but it wasn’t a very good measure of time since it might have been held up over the weekend. I will watch the dates on future letters so I can let you know for sure the time.
I hope everything is coming off well back there. Back on the watch question – don’t go a whole lot over the $30 mark.
Bedtime
Love,
Donald