November 14, 1945

Neumarkt, Germany

November 14, 1945

Dear Mother, Dad, & Girls,

             I decided to write one last letter from Germany. This is the same place that I wrote from the last time you had a letter from me. We have all been sitting here for the last nine days just waiting for out orders to come for us to move on down into France to one of the camps by the ports there. We have just laid around here going crazy for something to do and all of us thinking that the damned army had shipped us off down here and then forgot all about us. We have been doing a little guard duty that there is to be done here and outside of that nothing. We see a show every night though. It has been raining and snowing nearly every day too. There is still a little snow on the ground and it is getting cold around here. I have been wanting to go hunting in the hills here but there aren’t any guns in this outfit except the ones that they use on guard so I couldn’t go. Some of the men said they had seen deer around here too.

            Our moving orders came today and we are to leave Friday and go down in France around Reims. That isn’t too far from Paris. We will be at the camp there by the name of “Camp Chicago.” We are supposed to be there six or eight days then to the boat but you can’t never tell how long we will be there before we catch the boat. We are all patient though. It is going to be a little rough going down there in those forty and eights this time of year but we don’t care if we have to go by Jack-ass just so we get out of here and down to the boat. Just this morning, I told two of my buddies that we should take a good bath and then send out all our dirty clothes and get ready to move but I said to them that as sure as we sent them we would get the order to move – well we sent out clothes out by a civilian to get them washed and ironed. The civilian hadn’t been gone an hour when in came the first sgt. and said we got the moving order. We all started to cussing and pulling out hair cause none of us knew where this civilian lives so guess we have lost our clothes. Oh they probably don’t cost much thought. It will happen every time. It will take us four days to get down to this camp in France the way these trains run over here. We don’t care for nothing just so long as we are moving that way.

            This is the most beat up German typewriter that I ever used in my life. I still haven’t got Norman a lugar yet and it looks like I might not be able too but I will still look for one. Tell the girls that I will try to get them something down in France for a souvenir if I can get out of camp and if I can’t , then I will pick up something for them when I get back in the states and on the way home some place. Well, I hope you are all well and that the hunters had some luck. I have got to write a line to Rosalie and then to Kenneth. Kenneth is started on his way home too. I should beat him there though cause I have got nine more points than him and should be just a little ahead of him. We will both be home together though. I will write again when I get in France.

Love to all,
Your son,
Max