November 14, 1943

Dear Folks:                                                            Nov. 14
            Got back to Godman on the 10th. We really got cold coming back. There had been some snow here but none left when we got back. Coming back it was a clear sky east of the mountains but west it was a solid layer of clouds below. We were at 9000′ and the mountains appeared to be a dam holding the clouds back like so much water. The peaks had snow on them.
            My mail caught up with me on the 11th. They loaded our mail in a plane and were going to bring it to us at Myrtle Beach but the plane got as far as Atlanta and had engine trouble and finally got back here a day after we did — so got all the mail written after Oct. 28 in one bunch. Also got the magazine and several bunches of Dispatches. See where Jim Mollynearn [sp?] died. Thot he died a long time ago. I don’t know whether Greensboro is near Myrtle Beach or not. Hope Rube’s operations did him some good. Got a letter from Josephine.
            Has been freezing ice here every nite. Spent some more time on the rifle range with sub-machine gun. Haven’t been to Louisville since the night I got here. It takes 2 hrs. to get there one way and we have a bed check every nite at 12. Haven’t had a day off since getting here. Schedule runs 7 days a week. We have a few free hours at a time but usually spend it sitting in Operations building to find out what we do next.
            I got grape fruit juice for breakfast. Better give the church $20 of the money and use the rest for a down payment on a tractor — Christmas! I can buy 50% wool winter underwear, shirt & drawers, for $2.73 at quartermaster. Do you want any? Did my class ring ever come from Lubbock? Send it along when it comes. Take a look at it I think it will be $16.00 C.O.D. I had just about forgotten it. Keep the radio until you get a tube.
                                    Yours truly,
                                                John