Letter from Clarence Williams to Gretchen Williams, July 27, 1945

I am sitting in the Red Cross Club writing until 7:30 for the show to start. The theater is right next door so I decided this would be a good place to drop my honey a line from. I came in this afternooon with some of the boys to go swimming. I wanted to see a show the Rainbow is presenting, "One Hour For You," which is supposed to be very good. The rest of the guys didn't want to miss chow at camp so I came on to the Red Cross alone and had coffee and doughnuts for supper. I also got in on a some nice entertainment here as they were having a show called "Cocktail Hour." Some of it I had seen at Innsbruck about a month ago when I wrote you about going to the opera house there. This is really a beautiful writing room   the walls are of a deep green with the ceiling of cream. The carpenting is exactly the same color green with small cream squares. Even the chairs are upholstered in green and cream material quite similar to our Chesterfield.

I received two letters from you again last night but don't have them with me now so can't answer any questions. They were the 15th and 16th. I think I am completely caught up through the 19th now so probably won't get any more for a couple of days.

It was terrible hot today until just a short while ago when clouds formed quickly and it began to rain. Now there is a nice cool breeze even tho the sun is shining brightly again. I think the weather here can change more quickly than any place I have ever seen.

Some young kid here, A.G.L. is playing a grand piano and he can really make music on   the thing. Its surprising the amount of talent you can find in a division. There is apparently remnants of a dozen outfits here in Salzburg on job. Today I have seen fellows from 3rd Army, Air Corps, 2nd Corps, 15th Corps, 7th Army, several armored divisions, the 3rd Div, 103rd, 101st Airborne, and of course the 42 d is predominating. I can understand why bullets are hard to find. I think there are more G.I.'s here than civilians.

I heard a good rumor this morning that the Jap Ambassador had left to ask for peace terms for Japan. Gosh, how I hope that is right, perhaps it won't be too long before we get back. I really believe that thing will break any day now as I think they have had more than enough to teach them a lesson and they should certainly know they have nothing   to look forward to except some thing worse. With only a third of our strength over there now, imagine what would happen with the rest of it combined.

Well darling, its time to go to the show so think I better close for now.