Dearest Betty

Letter 123
July 5, 1951
Hi, Sugar

Well lots of steel has passed over head since I last wrote but my thoughts have been with you always. Yesterday we had one of the damndest counter Btry. Fires I have ever seen. Love Btry. Just across the stream from us slugged it out with one of M Btry’s guns working on it when we got a batch of incoming mail. Love got a direct hit on gun # 6. Amo blew up fuzes flying so Street & I took off over there. I started up a T.D.18 (cot) & pulled up to the gun with the blade raised (bulldozer). Lem jumped off & started to hook onto the gun when the Major ordered us away. We were trying to save the gun. Capt. Muntze (Btry Commander of Love Btry) recommended us, Street & I, for a Silver Star, but Maj. Coffee wanted to give us a court Martial. We settled for a damned good job of getting the gun back in action. Got one from the Army and redid the hit one to fix the other guns.

Well we leave here now on the 9th. Keeps me going one day for day. I’ll let you know.

Bill