Letter from Clarence Williams to Gretchen Williams, October 12, 1945

My second letter to you today honey but I stated in my previous one I didn’t get one written yesterday so this will help to balance up things.

I had planned to see the movie here in Hallein tonite but Lt. Hunter ran me down and wanted an order cut so they could go to Vienna tomorrow. It was about 8:30 when I finished with it and too late to see the show so decided to write my honey instead. Getting into Vienna is almost as hard to do as to get back to the states, the big drawback seems to be because of passing through the Russian occupied territory. I would like very much to see Vienna myself but doubt that it will be possible the way things stand at present.

We had inspectors here today from our Battalion checking records, supply and our vehicles. Fortunately I had just posted all my WD Circulars yesterday so everything was right up to date. Anyway   they found nothing out of order.

Speaking of old acquaintances honey, we have a young kid in our company by the name of Pool. He has been with us a long time but today I found his home town was Elgin, I’ll so I asked him if he knew an instructor in the schools there by the name of Cartright. He immediately said, do you mean Roscoe? Also said he had him for some classes and that he was now principle of one of their schools. He also knew Mr. Soam, originally from C.B.

Honey I am inclosing a money order for 100.00 and hope it arrives okay. Might as well build that old bank account as much as possible while I have to be over here. Just that much more for us when I get back. Will send more in a couple of days.

It is raining like hell out again tonite so guess we are in for another long spell. We had three beautiful days which I guess is about the limit for this territory.

Honey I hope you heard correct on the statement that all men serving   at the time of VE day would be out by July. I havn’t see that stated in the S & S as yet. I am still hoping for that furlough to come up in the meantime but have heard nothing more to date.

I am glad to hear you are feeling back to normal again and hope you won’t have another similar spell next month.

Honey the boxes of food sound swell and I cant think of any thing that would be better than food. As you say, when I get home, there will be so many things I will need and then we can shop together. I hope by this time you have received my letter saying not to send anymore boxes until I can let you know definitely about the furlough. If by chance I do get it I have no way of knowing how much time I will have before leaving for ship’t.

Well darling, it is bed time so better say “Good Nite. Sweetheart" —