Hello,No timeRussellFort Niagara, NY

Dear Helen and Wilson: Guess it’s about time I utilized this writing paper to drop you a line. Right now I have a grandstand seat on a huge crap game. Sure it’s payday. Tomorrow some of the boys will be broke until payday again. But there isn’t very much new. You’ve probably got the same…

Dear Helen and Wilson: Got your letter OK the other day. Smitty and I got back to camp OK the other day, and this time on time. So Bob wants to know what A.S.N. means. Well, it’s just Army Serial Number. And ASF means Army Service Forces which formerly was SOS or Services of Supply.…

Dear Helen and Wilson, Willard and Grace, et al: Where do you think I am writing this letter from. The hospital up here. And what have I got – the measles; and where did I get ’em; well, you answer that one. This is my eighth day and I haven’t been sick any of the…

Dear Helen and Wilson: Well, here it is July again and I’m still at the Fort. I do have a new address as you will note on the envelope. No use writing. I’m doing about the same kind of work as usual. However, so far it has been rather light because this organization has just…

Dear Helen and Wilson: At least I’ve been working since I came back, but all of the guys I made friends with during the past year are moving out. Smitty and I spent another week-end over in Toronto together last week, but he leaves today for Sought Carolina. So you see how the army breaks…

Dear Helen and Wilson: Yes here I am, still alive, and apparently well except for one of those grippy colds which I have just about licked. I was chewing my spinach very nicely in the mess hall last night when my teeth engaged a nice small stone – result a nick out of one of…