Dearest Betty

Letter #58
March 8, 1951
Hoensong, Korea

(This is a clipping he enclosed with this letter)

Dearest Betty,

Well we got two Jeeps, four trailers on my raid up forward the other day. Lots of dead people laying around . Suppose they are all picked up by now. All of the 1st Ord. Bn. Demolition crew was lost yesterday. I knew quite a few of them. Carelessness in handling a load of land mines was the cause.

We got our put put going good now and have our radio working. Sure enjoy it too. We move up again day after tomorrow. Artillery positions are becoming harder and harder to find up here in the mountains. We had a heavy snow day before yesterday sure was pretty. Fuel is very dear here now so all stoves out at night. Sure had a lot of fun ribbing Mr. Tate . His and two or three others didn’t have any snow on them so they must have had a stove lit.

Well I will close now. We have the only radio in camp so we are a bit crowded tonight. We just can’t run them out you know. We say to Kim “On to the Yalu River” He replies “Tomorrow Morning at six o’clock”

Your Bill

P.S. I ordered a small Jig Saw the other day and had it sent to me at home. Open it up and see if anything is broken in it, please. By the way the six Rep. Draft arrived today, I’ll try & find out about Jimmy soon & let you know