The Final Letter from a Foxhole - Sunday November 18, 1945

 (It is with a bit of melancholy that I post this letter, as it is the last letter I have that Dad wrote home to his sister Geraldine. Since this is Memorial Day Weekend, it seems appropriate to post this final Letter from a Foxhole.)

Dear Sis:

Just a few lines to let you know I am still O.K. and to send these two hankeys. I have one more I will send later. I am expecting to leave here in the next 2 or 3 days. So you probably won't hear from me anymore until we have moved. I am also enclosing some Check money.

That is all for this time.

All my love

"Bert"

I don't know where Dad went after this letter home, but I know that he departed Europe on January 1, 1946, and arrived in the United States on January 8, 1946. He was Honorably Discharged from the Service on January 13, 1946, at Camp Atterbury, Indiana.

 

 Later in 1946, he met Helen Jean Fields at a dance in Loogootee, Indiana, and they married on March 10, 1947.

Seventeen months later, on August 2, 1948, I was born, their one and only child.

 

Although I have no more letters to post in this blog, if I find additional items that are related to my Dad's journey during WW2, I may create new posts over time. 

Thanks for following along. 

 

November 17, 1945

 Dear Sis

Received two letters from you today and was very glad to hear from you. Was sorry to hear you didn't have a good time on your trip to the big city. Well, as you have probably read in the paper, all troops have to be out of Check by the first of Dec., and we are supposed to move this week or the first of next week. So the next letter I write to you will probably be from Germany. I have sent three boxes to Mom from this town so be sure and tell me when she gets them. I am not going to send the radio I've got. I am going to take it with me and will probably send it in 2 or 3 weeks.

I was glad Jack's team won their first basketball game. I have been playing basketball here with the boys we have a pretty nice gym. I hope we have one in the town we move to.

From the way you wrote your last letter, you don't think I know anything about the point system. Well, the 80th in class 1-T, and that is temporary occupation. All of our 65 and 66-pointers left today for the 90th Division and I still have 59 points as we don't get 1 point a month added on as you think. The only way we get points added on now is if we get a decoration or battle stars. And I'm not going to get any. So I still don't know when I will start. So if any more people ask you when your brother is coming home,, you tell them he is coming home the first. The first chance he gets. HA. Well I guess that will be all for this time. I will write you as soon as we get in the new place.

Good night and all my love,

"Bert"