| dc.description.transcription | 2-13-44Dear Folks,After about 3 V mails we’ll try another Air Mail to see how it makes out for speed. So far,I have nothing to report on those letters coming from your end of the line because the few I got all came at once. They all had a different date on them and they were about every mixed between U mails and air mails.As for the news situation there is as usual, not much. The best is that our crew has a 48-hr.pass coming up this weekend. Not much can be done in 48 hours but we intend to try to get to London. We’ll go for sure if they make out our passes early and hint that they don’t really expect us back exactly on time. Such things are done and we are working on the possibilities of it happening to us. The other bit of gossip is that Bob’s wife has dropped a couple of hints that he might become a father. She just says enough to be tantalizing. It might allbe Bob’s imagination and wishful thinking but that is the way it stands now. I’ll keep you informed as to developments, however, Bob’s mail is coming about like mine, it ain’t.I don’t think I told you before but the weather is better than it was. The snow is all melted but it still rains and it still gets cold but not as cold as it was at first. Anyhow, Mama, its cold enough for those sox (if sox doesn’t spell socks, what does it spell?), that you are knitting. In the box you send them in you might include, if they are not rationed, or too hard to get a hold of, some hard-boiledeggs. I’d like for you to make that order fresh eggs and about a gallon of fresh milk but I realize that that would be more than slightly difficult. We get fresh eggs about twice aweek but all my young life I’ve been used to them just a bit more often. We get plenty of milk too for our coffee and cereal but its either powdered or canned. If we don’t get the extra time on our pass so that the trip to London would be advisable,I think I’ll go to Norwich, a nearer town,and drink milkshakes.Don’t get me wrong on this food situation because I’m sure that we, here in England are getting the best food of any soldier overseas.Its getting about quitting so I’ll do just that. I’m including that last souvenir that I spoke of, from the boat ride.All my love,Joe | |
