Saturday 15 July 1944

Dearest Kitten:

You have been on my mind a lot lately. It has made me rather lonesome for you and home, but I guess that I will weather the storm. There are times that I am busy enough to keep me from getting too lonesome and then there are times that I find myself dreaming of home and you. It is times like that when the longing for you creeps up on me and makes me short tempered.

I have to watch myself closely or I get grumpy as a bear. Times like that, I try to snap out of it by walking around and looking the company over.

There is one thing that I never tire of, and that is telling you how much I love you. By this time you should be sure of my love for you.

No mail from you for the past three days and I find it very hard to write anything very interesting. I can appreciate the job that you have trying to write every day.

It is about time that I hear of your receiving the set of salt & pepper shakers. There is another package on the way and one of the articles is a bracelet. Due to the fact that the jewelers over here are very independent and do not have the necessary material to do the complete job. Take the bracelet to a jeweler and have the links soldered with silver solder and have a clasp put on. Have To Irene with Love Bob engraved on the center piece. The other articles I picked up here & there. From time to time you will be receiving packages from me, I hope.

Yesterday I took a quick run out to the golf course to see about green fees & rental of clubs. I hope to be able to shake myself loose long enough some afternoon to go out for a few holes.

If you can get a few more golf balls, I would sure appreciate it if you sent me about ten more.

The war seems to be going along favorably for the allies. Let us hope and pray that it continues until this mess is cleared up. What a wild time everyone will have, for a short while anyhow, after this chaos is stopped.

Enclosed is one of the pictures that I told you about. It was taken outside of the orderly room. You may wonder how come we are wearing our insignia. We are authorized to do so in this zone and our C.O. ordered us to wear them. It was not so cold that I had to button my field jacket around my neck, it is buttoned all the way because I did not have a shirt on.

You will also find enclosed another will that is a real will. You can destroy the others that I sent to you, as they are not worth the paper that they are written on. The Powers of Attorney are legal, so hang onto them.

Am just getting over a cold that made me miserable for a couple of days. One morning I woke up and I ached in every muscle and bone in my body. What a day that was. I am feeling fine now though.

Well Sweetheart I am closing as I want to get this letter in the mail.

Regards to all, kiss the babies for me.

I love you with all my heart.

Your Loving, Devoted, & Faithful Husband,

Bob

P.S. Do not forget to send me twenty five dollars when you receive your allotment the first of August.