Sept. 4 – 45

Manila, P.I.

My Dearest “Judy”-

Well darling, here it is Friday night and I am still here in Manila. This is my liberty night but I didn’t go ashore again tonight because I didn’t feel like it. I know if I were in the states it would be a different story but I’m not so I’ll just stay here on the ship and like it. There is quite a lot to do here in Manila but liberty doesn’t interest me anymore because I’m tired of looking at these dark brown Philippinos. Sally it sure will be good to see white people after such a long time.

At last we got movies aboard our ship so I won’t have to go ashore anymore. Tonight we had an old picture and it was rather good and I didn’t see it before, it was “Do Barry Was A Lady,” did you see it?

It rained almost all day today so I didn’t do too much work as usual. I’d rather we cleaned up our living quarters because tomorrow is inspection day again. There is always some work to be done on here rain or shine but we all prefer rainy days so you can imagine how we love our work!!!

You will have to excuse all the mistakes you find in this letter because I can’t think tonight for some reason or other. I think this is still august but I just found out that it ended a few days ago. I don’t particularly care if I can think or not as long as you stay on my mind honeychild.

Enclosed you will find a picture of me that was taken one afternoon when I was writing to you my sweet. I was laying on an ammunition box on the flying bridge of our ship. At that time, we were unloading cargo alongside of a dock. I am caught meanwhile I must have been thinking about you, hope you like it honey.

I am looking forward to being at home on or at least in the good old states by Christmas if everything goes well and I sure hope it does. Wouldn’t it be wonderful if we could spend the holidays together???

Well my love I guess I better say so long for tonight, I’ll write more tomorrow night. I have to catch up on my shut eye. So be sweet love and write after. Bye now.

Love and Kisses

Genie