Letter from Clarence Williams to Gretchen Williams, July 17, 1945
- Date
- Creator
- Williams, Clarence
- Format
- letter
- Category
- Stories
- Subcategory
- Clarence Williams
- Repository
- Institute for Holocaust Education
- Collection
- Clarence Williams Collection
- Bibliographic ID
- Folder 17, Item d
- People
- Cloud, Bob
- Insull, Wilbur
- Williams, Clarence
- Williams, Gretchen
- Benton, Deane W.
- O'Brien, Joseph A.
- Data URI
- soh.sto002.00162.xml
- Sender(s)
- Williams, Clarence
- Sent from
- Salzburg, Austria
- Recipient(s)
- Williams, Gretchen
- Received at
- Omaha, Nebraska
- Correspondence Delivered Date
Salzburg, Austria17 July 45.
Dearest Gretchen —
This is another of those days with nothing much of interest to write about. We did about the usual thing this afternoon, Insull and I went swimming and this morning I helped Bob again on some typing.
We had some bad news today, found out
Cap’t O’Brien is leaving us and going to the
Field Artillery. The boys are quite upset over
the deal as he is probably the best liked (by
the enlisted men) of any medical officer in the
Bn. In fact that is the main reason he is
transferring out, because he fought for we
fellows and wouldn’t kiss the colonels’ A—.
He called me in his tent last night as I
was walking by and told me how he hated
to leave we boys, however because of the
efficiency rating he received from the Bn C.O.
he couldn’t do otherwise. He said “Hell Willie,
you and I are civilians just trying to
be soldiers” which I agreed was exactly
right. They all admit our company did
the best in combat of all in the Bn so
we know his rating could be only from
personal feelings. One of the boys in
the company prints a small daily paper
just for our company and today he dedicated
his paper to Cap’t O’Brien. The cap’t
really appreciated it and I thought it
pretty good myself so am inclosing one for you
to read. We are going to have a farewell party
for him tonite which I suppose will
be quite a drunken affair. I understand
we are to have beer, wine, cognac, GI
alcohol and Schnapp’s and I can imagine
how the company will feel tomorrow.
Another cheap deal the Bn pulled is
that they won’t even give us vehicles
to use for transportation to the party
so Service Co. of the 222d Infantry are
furnishing some trucks. Isn’t that a
deal for some one to pull. We hear our
new C.O. will be Cap’t Benton from Co “B”.
We don’t know much about him but the
boys there seem to like him very
much and hate to loose him. That being
the case he should work out okay. Cap’t
O’Brien also told me the other night that
he put me in for Tee 5 rating which is
the same as Cpl however don’t know as
yet whether it will be okayed by Bn. Time
will tell.
Well darling thats all the news for today, so will close for now. All my love and kisses.
Always yours, Clarence.
Pfc. C. O. Williams 37738878
Co "A" - 122d Medical Bn.
A.P.O. #411 - c/o P.M.
New York, New York.