Letter transcription:

Wed Nov. 25, 1942

Dear Mother,

Today being my birthday I didn’t receive any mail other than 3 copies of the Newton County Enterprise Dated Oct. 1, 8 & 15. They were pretty good reading and my roommate said he wanted to read the want adds and farm notices.

Our trip yesterday was something different – Fred, another Dr and myself climed [climbed] into a peep [jeep]. Me in the back seat and the other two ahead. Around town the roads were rather smooth and the going was good but a little farther out the roads became very very rough and my rear end took a lot of slapping. Those in the front seat didn’t fare so badly.

Along the route we saw lots of banana orchards with the green bananas hanging in bunches. There were a few orange trees but the oranges looked small hardly larger than a good sized plum. There seemed to be growing wild and not much

[page 2] cultivated.

Some of the roads run along on the side of the mountains and at times one could see the road we just came over winding back and right along side almost but of course over on the edge of the other hill. Some of the peaks are about I would judge 5000 feet. Some are sloping while others seem to go almost straight up. The trees are not large either in the valleys on on the mountains and occasionally there were a few tall pines but the nailoa [niaouli] tree is very much in the majority.

On our journey back we picked up a trooper from Australia and got some interesting sidelights from the other side. He rode in the back seat with me and took the bottom slapping the same as I did. When we got back we had traveled about 70 miles. It was interesting but the scenery around here is not

[page 3] the prettiest in the world. Not even as good as the flat lands of Indiana. I saw corn growing in all stages from 3-4 inches up to 4-5 feet, beans about one foot high and other vegetables such as cabbage, onions, etc.

There is another show tonite and I think I’ll go. It is right here in camp the name “The Howards of Virginia.”

The show is over and it was pretty good. It was a story of the Revolutionary War. Lots of things are similar even in this one today.

I’m sending you a picture post card & save it for there are some interesting things I can point out. It would be telling if I marked them out now.

I’m sending out some Christmas greetings tonite. We have two kinds one is the V-mail and the other is one made here in camp. I sent another kind to Mark & John the other day. I’ll send one of each to you. That is these last two kinds.

We have another little change in address- just an addition. See envelope.

Well, this letter is more jumbled but maybe you can make head & tales of it I hope.

Lots of Love

Daddy

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