August 11, 1942
Monday Evening
Dearest Janie,
Well
sweetheart here it is another day gone and another day closer to seeing
you. Seems that it
never will get here. Maybe I am
too anxious. Anyway it would be so very
long now.
I kinda expected a letter today but didn’t get one. Maybe I will tomorrow. The mail service has been poor. I don’t think they get or send out mail here
but about two times a week.
How are you
feeling honey? By the time you get this
letter it will be almost time for you to go to the hospital, won’t it? I worry so much that the baby will be born
before I get there that I don’t know what to do. Because I sure want to be
with you when the baby is born.
Maybe I will get there in time.
Let me know what the doctor says about it.
Did the Red
Cross ever send the letter requesting a furlough? Let me know.
Also honey, see if there is any way to borrow money from the Red Cross
there so I can come home. As far as I
can find out there isn’t a Red Cross office here. Ask the Red Cross office there about it.
I don’t
think I will get any money at all payday.
I had the $35.00 installment dropped and changed it to the $22 a month
so you could get the extra money. And
they tell me at the personnel office that they are taking out for three months
the month that will be $66 so I wont get a thing at
all. Because when you are in the field
there isn’t any means of communication at all.
So see if it might be born before the 1st. If so I could leave around the 2nd
and get there pretty close to the right time.
Sweetheart
I will stop now as I have run out of anything to say. I work all night drawing rations now and
sleep during the day so I will have more of a chance to write.
Tell Mother
Dad and Sybil hello for me and tell them I love them. Let me know what was the
matter with Jeanette (Jeanelle?)
Be sure and write real soon.
Love to all
Clive
P.S: Did Mother ever get her money
back that she sent to
Clive