Dearest Betty

Letter #21
October 29, 1950,

Dearest Betty,

Well did you hear the big joke the Army got on us at Wonsan? Had Bob Hope meet our first wave of landing troops who they called assault wave. No Army would have been there if they were assault troops.

We are about 14 miles North of Wonsan in a Korean Village and we are in a school house & housing project. You would laugh yourself silly if you could see one of these places. Walls as thin as Poinciana Project but we have a bath tub and you build a fire underneath. Also heat the house by building a fire under it. Also a head.

(I am inserting a sketch he drew in the letter)



These people save the sewage for fertilizer so all heads dump into a pit and “Honey Dippers” pick it up and spread it around gardens. So we can’t eat any thing they grow.

Well the war’s over. All the officers are clearing out and we are having roll call. Close order drill, Bn. Mess & all such B.S. Well we need it. Honey don’t you worry about when we will be home. I’ll let you know. We, of course hear lots of Scuttlebut. Some come true and some don’t. We also have heard Japan by Thanksgiving. Camp Elliot for Xmas and all reserves out etc.

But today we sent reconnaissance party 100 miles up the Manchurian border looking for artillery positions,

so when I get back to the U.S. I’ll let you know. Of course this is a West Coast Division ??? will have to do one Hell of a lot of maneuvering to make the East Coast but Novak will keep me posted and I am sure I’ll make it some way.

Well read your mail tomorrow and write again.