Letter from Clarence Williams to Gretchen Williams, June 14, 1945

I’ll warn you in advance this will be a very boring letter as there really hasn’t been anything of interest to write about.

I didn’t receive any mail from you again today so this makes four days without mail. If I don’t get some tomorrow, I’m really going to be down in the dumps. All our mail has been very light for more than a week now so it should break loose soon.

I didn’t get my package to you completely wrapped last night so I must finish that tonite and get it on its way. I am still looking for some heavy wrapping paper but havn’t located any as yet.

Cap’t O’Brein told me last night that he would like me to work with Bob now including alternating with him going to Bn Hq each day for our mail and distribution. I told him I would be happy to do so because for one thing it will keep me away from a lot of petty stuff they think of. (I didn’t tell him the latter part of course.) We were typing most of the afternoon on recommendations for Bronze Star Medal awards. We are getting pretty   disgusted writing them as we have completed many of them two and three times only to have them returned by the adjutant for more detail. I hope some of them will be okayed and awarded.

Tonite they were looking for Insull, Harris and I to go and play ball. We were all hiding out in different sections of the building. They looked for us about 15 minutes and couldn’t locate us so left. I locked myself in the toilet and Insull and Harris hid up on the 3rd floor.

We had a lettuce and tomato salad tonite and gee was it ever delicious. Our tomatoes come from the Canary Islands. They are small and not as tasty as ours in the states but they are plenty good, with the others impossible to obtain.

Well darling I’m all out of news but will try and write something of interest tomorrow. Also I’m hoping to hear from you in the meantime.