July 23, 1942  Tucson, AZ

Dear Donna,

Now I will finish answering your letter and will try not to repeat anything that I said last night, or rather early this morning. 

Our main echelon left today by troop train for Wendover.  They were made to pack their barracks bags on their shoulders for almost a mile, and was it hot.  Thank heavens I sent all mine and have nothing but a suit to carry with me. 

I have taken from your letter that you are becoming very capable in the duties of housework.  I was going to say housewife, but that wouldn’t be so very right would it.  I guess that is good practice for anyone though.

I understand that Delta is really experiencing a sort of boom at the present time due to the construction that is going on at Abraham.  Have any of the Japs been interred as of yet?

You can’t furnish a home nowadays if you can’t take first prize at a bridge game.  But I guess that is in any game or in anything that someone has to loose.  It’s true in love and war.  I just read that part of your letter over again and you said that you won low score.  Is that good or bad?  I wouldn’t know.

Boy, of gosh, or something, it is hot today.  I seems to rain for about 3 minutes, and from then on it is so darn close that it is really uncomfortable.  That is the way that it is right now.  But the blotch on the bottom of the page is sweat that has dripped of from my wrist.

I do believe I have more control of my hand today than I had last night.  Maybe I was a little bit high last night, after all.  Sorry if this letter disagrees with last nights on that count. 

I remember a very nice picture that I seen on your piano of you, and I was kind of hoping that you would have a small addition of it, or any one of you that I could have.  Hope so.  I don’t have any others of myself that I could send, but there is no such thing as a good one of me.  Have to have something to offer first to the camera.  If I can, get a decent one taken, and if you would still like one, it’s yours.  I’m sorry I didn’t have a letter from you Sunday, but I wanted to find out things if possible.  I’m still not 100% certain.  It depends now on whether we can get enough planes now.  I’d just as soon go by train.  We had another crash landing today, but no one hurts as far as I know.  Just another case of  one of the landing gears collapsing.

I didn’t know you had a sister.  What is her name and where does she live?

Boy do I wish I could come and see you.  This war is getting to be a little bit tiresome and I sure wish it was all over.  When it is, I would like to have the opportunity to run the wheels off that car of mine, taking you all over, doing everything I have missed, both before and after my date of enlistment.  Hope you will still be around and single then.  Is or isn’t that wishful thinking?

Think I’ll take in the show tonight, Wallace Berry in “Jackass Mail”.  Maybe it will be good and maybe not.

So, goodnight for now.

Lots of love,

Wayne