Real Potatoes (Roscoe)

: June 26, 1943 envelope

: June 26, 1943, p. 1

: June 26, 1943, p. 2

: June 26, 1943, p. 3

: June 26, 1943, p. 4

Letter transcription:

June 26, 1943
Lieut R.S. Yegerlehner USNR
Navy 60 – F.P.O. San Fran.

Dear Mother,

After re-reading your letters yesterday it seemed your mail is a little slow but I believe it will pick up and by this time you should be getting them almost as soon as you did while I was in Noumea.

I saw some potatoes and onions this A.M. real potatoes. Of course we have had lots of onions in an off-color manner and one or two meals of potatoes but it sure looks as if things are picking up in the food line but when it picks up I suppose I’ll be changed because

[page 2] that is the way it has been and I won’t be a bit mad if it changed in the right direction – are you thinking the same as I?! I’m not building any hopes as to an early return – then if its longer I won’t feel so badly. You know how that is.

This is the dope on that check that hasn’t arrived as yet – No 115,268, Issued Jan 13. Issued by J.E. LeCours – sent to you May 13 – Symbol number 59-658. However, I wouldn’t do anything about it for another month or six weeks. I’ll talk to someone around here and then write you when I think you should proceed with the reclaiming – I

[page 3] hope by this time you have it and the whole matter can be dropped.

A fellow that left here stopped and had a look at my clothes and he wrote back that they were being taken care of and were nice and dry etc. So if the moths keep out everything should be OK. There were some moth balls in them and there were no moth when I left. So I’m hoping there will be no chance for any to get into them for operation.

The letter you wrote on June 6 was postmarked June 9. Either it got lost in the P.O. or one of the boys forgot to mail it. It wasn’t

[page 4] mailed on the train like some are that you get in late at night. So there was a slight mix up some place along the line.

I’m having to struggle more than somewhat to think of things to write today – its just one of those days when Cerebration seems to be at a low ebb.

I’m wondering if you appreciate the endings I’ve been using on my letters or are they “lousy” – hoping you are the same

Love Daddy