Letter transcription:

May 2, 1943
Lieut. R. S. Yegerlehner USNR
Navy 60
F. P. O. San Francisco Calif.

Dear Mother,

Sunday morning and up and going. This as you know is my day to write home and I’ll do so when this is finished. My last letter to them was only wed. because of the mix-up.

Yesterday a chaplin moved into our tent and I’m not sure who will be converted us or him. He seems to be a very swell fellow and a Catholic. He’ll probably want a tent of his own when we can get around to it.

The officer who received the shrimp broke down and opened two cans yesterday P.M. and we got some catsup to dunk them in and were they good. You’d be surprised at the amount of happiness an sult can receive from a can of sardines shrimp etc. The last you wrote you sent have not arrived. This fellow that got them yest said his wife had to almost bribe the store keeper to get what she sent.

We have the usual conversation going on in the tent and really this should be censored for female reading but I’ll try not to inject any of the words and phrases that are going rampant. Really we’re not a bad lot but we have to have our little fun now and then.

There is a little lull in the conversation and maybe I can get an inspiration but I’m a little afraid things have started again and I’m at the end of my ropes.

So solong
Love Daddy

Russell Islands
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