February 16, 1945 — Germany
Feb 16, 1945 Germany
Dear Marian
The fact that I am in Germany might sound a little rough but it doesn't mean anything. I have a nice set-up here. I'm sleeping in a nice sleeping bag, on a cot in a room with heat, in a good dry house.
These sleeping bags are really the cats. They are water-proof with blankets inside. Once I crawl into that I can sleep warm and dry even outside in the snow. The food is good and I'm not working hard now. Just like home — almost.
The last letter I received from you was the twenty-eighth of January. I've been writing quite a bit lately so I hope you have received all that I wrote to you. The mail has really been pouring in to me this month. Every time we have a mail call I have a few letters. Not bad.
You was right when you said I had two sisters and a brother all thinking of me. The mail that I have been getting lately proves it. Don't think that it doesn't make me feel good to know this.
We are allowed to say that we are in the seventh Corps now. We have a snappy insignia painted on our helmets. If I get a chance to have a picture taken I will send you one to see it.
We were doing the same kind of work as you and Catherine saw in the movies of the Engineers in Belgium. I doubt very much if I was in that picture though, because I'm sure there weren't any photographers around then.
I think I'm getting Spring Fever. It has been nice and warm the past three or four days. I hope this kind of weather is here to stay. They claim there is an early spring here.
We even have an electric light hooked up in our room now. There is no electricity but we have wires hooked up to batteries and get the same results. We don't have any worries over who is going to pay the light bill either.
The only trouble here is that the people aren't our allies so we can't fool with them. That means there isn't any place to go for a few drinks but we have quite a few good times amongst ourselves. I've been in the Army long enough to be used to it.
I'll have to close now, so long until I write again. Give my regards to Nick and Gary. Lots of love and Best of luck
Your brother George