October 16, 1945
Oct. 16th ‘45
Dear Folks,
Seven o’clock and it’s been dark for a couple hours already – Boy these nites can be long!
Today we had a mad house at the office – officers from the Jap 42nd Division to turn over more equipment, assistant adjutant under MacArthur, and then the American officers from Division to accept a bunch of that equipment plus the assorted requests for other material. Boy we had more American and Jap Brass today than I’ve seen in a heck of a long time.
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Today I was over half thru with my map and the Engineers came up for our overlays to make a composite. There me with some thirty odd hours on the joking thing and I junked it. Actually it isn’t bad tho – I really appreciate the work they’re doing. It’s going to be a lot more accurate than mine, a lot better, and it means no more work as far as that’s concerned.
Tomorrow I asked for a pass, and the Captain ok’d it – So I’ll look over the old city and see how the Japs live. I’ve really gotten full and complete reports on the city up to now, and most of
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the guys weren’t too well pleased. Ah, but then a lot of guys need a lot more to amuse them than I do.
It’s 8:00 or rather 8:15 – this is a marvelous game of bull stinging, and I can’t concentrate on either the letter or the conversation, and I’ve got to write the kids tonite too! (Tho I don’t have the slightest idea what the heck I’m going to write about.)
I’m going to try to make a touch on the Captain. We’ve got a bunch of bicycles in one of the warehouses, and I’m going to see if I can get one to go to work on. I’m about a mile from work, and while I get
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a ride every day, I sort of still want a bicycle. He should give me one too – tho I’m not positive and I won’t know until Thursday.
The discussion is on horses and cattle now – and while it’s not too interesting it’s plenty loud which is just as disconcerting.
We haven’t gotten any mail for a while, that storm on Okinawa sort of messed up the mail systems. Tho we should get mail by Wed. That’s tomorrow – and until tomorrow then.
Love, Bud