Letter from Clarence Williams to Gretchen Williams, September 15, 1945

Well honey half of September is gone and still no news as to when we are going home. We bid farewell to five of the boys leaving today, they left about 2:00 and were going to the 813th Tank Destroyers. We heard they were to be in France Monday so apparently they aren’t losing much time in getting them on their way.

I picked up my pictures today, some were fairly good, a few would not develop and they lost one roll completely. I wasn’t surprised that many taken in England weren’t too good as the weather was so bad much of the time. Some in fact were taken in a mist so guess it wasn’t the fault of the film. I am inclosing six of them taken at Glasgow and Loch Lomond and will inclose another group in my letter tomorrow. You can get a good idea of the weather from the pictures I took at Loch Lomond and the wind was blowing like hell. Because of the shortage of paper I was able to get only one print of each so will send the negative home in case you wish to have any more made. I wish I could have gotten two so as to send a few of the shots to Hanks.

We had three boys who were scheduled to leave for England tomorrow but their furloughs were canceled for some reason. We are trying to figure out why, apparently we are   going to move to another location or else something is in the wind. Some of the other units have moved recently to new locations so we will probably do the same. I would just as soon, as think I have seen about every thing of interest in this sector.

I was very much surprised at Dow going back to the Waterworks and cant help but fell similar to the way Charlotte does about it. I think there isn’t any doubt but what the war had something to do with their changing about. Apparently Dow doesn’t like the farm as well as they pretended when moving out there. Anyway, as you say, I would prefer not to be in their place for a while.

I am glad to hear Viola is feeling so much better and that her vacation agreed with her. Pete should certainly be home soon now with his points and age combined he should be in one of the top brackets.

I’ll bet Nadine has quite a time with her home and children — I didn’t know Bob had children that old. They could be a lot of help to her at the age especially with the housework and all. Perhaps now the war is ended she will be able to find some help again. No doubt some of those little factories in C.B. will have to cut down on the number of their employees.

Well daring there isn’t much more news so think I better close until tomorrow — Bye for now —