Letter from Clarence Williams to Gretchen Williams, July 2, 1945

Happy day, I received another letter from you tonite, it was June 26th. The past few days I have had one every day so apparently they are now making daily plane trips. I also received one from Chuck Brenholm and he is now at Wertheim, Germany, a town we came through in the drive. He states they are making many changes in their Division, the 63rd, and that they are breaking it up, sending the men to other units that are going by way of the states to the Pacific. In time they are receiving men with high points that will sooner or later be discharged. He seems to think he will soon be in an outfit leaving for the states. I still don’t know what to think about this Division as Army of Occupation. All the boys at Personnel have been receiving news from home stating we are to be A of O, however we are still carried in Category II which supposedly means redeployment. I made up a list today of officers and men who have more than 85 points, men who wish A of O if they have 85 and class D men, in other words men who should be taken out of a unit in Category II. I also talked with three young boys from the 3d Div who   voluntarily asked for duty in the Pacific and were transferred to the 42d. Now you can see where we stand and why we wonder what the hell the score is. Practically all the fellows feel that we are definitely going there sometime later, by way of the states of course but that we will be here for at least a couple months yet. Of course you know the Army, our category can be changed over nite and we could be permanent A of O. If that is the case, even then we could be transferred to another unit so the more I think of it, the crazier I get if such a thing is possible.

The weather has really been cold and rainy today. This afternoon you could see your breath in the air and tonite I have a fire in my room for the first time. It really feels good too. I wanted to do some laundry tonite but was afraid it would never get dry and also it is pretty cold for washing clothes since the wash house is out in the back yard by itself.

I am inclosing a few more pictures including one of our new clubs. Notice the name which means just what it says, “No officers”. It is really quite nice inside.

Well darling I guess this is all for today so Bye for now until tomorrow.