Letter from Clarence Williams to Gretchen Williams, May 14, 1945
- Date
- Creator
- Williams, Clarence
- Format
- letter
- Category
- Stories
- Subcategory
- Clarence Williams
- Repository
- Institute for Holocaust Education
- Collection
- Clarence Williams Collection
- Bibliographic ID
- Folder 11, Item e
- Places
- Tegernsee, Germany
- Innsbruck, Austria
- Wurzburg, Germany
- Kirchbichl, Austria
- Wasserburg, Germany
- Data URI
- soh.sto002.00103.xml
- Sender(s)
- Williams, Clarence
- Recipient(s)
- Williams, Gretchen
- Received at
- Omaha, Nebraska
- Correspondence Delivered Date
Monday14 May 45.
My Darling —
Well honey for the first time since being over here I can tell you exactly where I am. we are in a very small community by the name of Kirchbichl, Austria and it is about fifty miles North and slightly East of Innsbruck so if you glance at a map you can get an idea of about where we now are.
This is the first I have written for three
days, the first day we traveled most of the
time, yesterday I was sick but am feeling
some better now. I had a terribly upset stomach
and couldn’t keep anything down. Today I
havn’t eaten much, just havn’t felt hungry
but have managed to keep it inside. I felt
as though I had been poisoned from the
cramps in my stomach but still don't
know the reason for same. Both Cap’t
Martin and Cap’t O’Brien checked me, gave me
some pills and told me to go to bed and
I got up feeling quite a lot better. I havn’t
had any mail from you for several
days I suppose because of our constant
moving. We covered quite a long distance
moving from our location in Germany
near Wasserberg down to our present
location. We are now completely surrounded
by the Bavarian Alps and are they ever
beautiful. I hope some day to be able to
bring you over here on a vacation tour of
this country. As yet we don’t know how
long we untill be over here, today we put
in applications for seef[?] study and group
teaching courses. I put in for Business
Principles and Management and also Fundamentals
of Advertising. If we have to be
around a couple months, I just as well
have some thing to study however I know
I won’t be able to get interested in it for
thinking about home. Each and every day
I am getting more disgusted.
I sent some pictures in today to get them developed and surely hope they turn out good. If so I’ll send them to you, they are mostly of scenery and places we have stayed around Germany.
I received the box you sent me from Williams and Klorns[?] containing the cookies, candy and gloves. Thanks a lot honey they were really good. I still have some of them left to pick on when hungry.
The weather here is still wonderful and during the day it gets almost hot. Even the evening aren’t as cool as one would expect for all the snow here in the mountains.
I am enclosing a few post cards that
I picked up along the line. The bridge shown
on the one of Wurzburg was destroyed however
the Engineers repaired it for use. Its the town
that had all the champagne in the underground
tunnels. Our planes had dropped
incendiary bombs over the city and when
we came through it looked almost like
a ghost city. Practically every building in
the city was gutted by fire that left
withing[?] but the walls standing. It
apparently was quite a beautiful city at one
time. Wasserburg was the town we were
in more recently where we stayed in
the Yale Professor’s home. It hadn’t
been too badly damaged as the fighting
had practically ceased by that time.
The town of Tegernsee we havn’t been
in but it so typical of these Austrian
towns, thot I would include it to give
you an idea of how pretty these little
towns are. They really go in for flowers
and so many of the buildings have
scenic paintings on the outside walls.
Well darling guess thats about all for today except to say I love you and miss you terribly.
Always yours Clarence.
Pfc. C. O. Williams 37738878
Co A - 122d Med Bn. A.P.O. #411
c/o P.M. New York, N. Y.