Letter transcription:

Lieut R.S. Yegerlehner USNR
Navy 60 F.P.O. S.F.C.
June 23, 1943

Dear Mother,

I started and got this far some time ago but things bothered me. Had some kid in and then a telephone call to make. Really I wonder what I would have written had not the interruptions taken place. However that is in the same class with the “ifs” and that is about as easy to settle. I suppose this (as the one I would have started ½ hr. ago) would will have nothing in it so why wonder and if.

No need of me writing the

[page 2] next but we are able to get some news now and then over the radio and it seems the axis are being put on the pan. The loss to Japan of those 77 airplanes over the Solomon Islands must have terrific. Of course maybe the radio or the news analyists were a little “stretchy” in their figures but when something like that is given out we always hope the figures are correct.

Another pause – a commander came in with the backache and

[page 3] when a commander comes around a Lieut always has to listen and try to do something to keep them from being irritated. It might be better in the end – which end! Your guess is as good as mine. Anyway I’m supposed to outline and help construct a heat lamp for the purpose of administering some heat – Make it warm not for the commander.

Well, I’d better get going and try to do my boy scout deed for the day – hoping you are the same –

Love Daddy

P.S. I was trying to be funny – How’d I do?

Russell Islands
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