Munich, Germany
October 31, 1945
Dear Mother, Dad, &
All:
Boy things have sure changed around here in the last
couple of days. Yesterday morning fifty-one of the old men left for home and a
bunch of new men came in to take their places. There are only me and about a
dozen of us old boys left here in the battery. Things are sure balled up around
here and nobody doesn’t know anything. It won’t be long now before the rest of
us will be going, we are next on the list to go out. It wouldn’t be bad when we
left if we would go straight down to the boat in France and sail, but when a
bunch of men leaves this outfit, they go to other outfits that are going home
and are here a couple of weeks and there a couple of weeks waiting their turn
to move into the boats. Then while they are going here and there, they have a
hundred different kinds of inspections on their equipment and clothes. There is
always a lot of red tape in the army, it doesn’t make any difference what you
are doing. That is the reason why I don’t think I will be home until after
Christmas. See, I will most likely leave this outfit to start on my way home
sometime this month but it all takes so much time. Everything has to be just
perfect before you can push right on through with your discharge. Then say,
that men going home now are out of the army and on their way home discharged
inside of three days after they land in New York.
I would like to know how your hunting is coming along now
Dad---you and Norman and if Johnson and Uncle Floyd has got out their yet. I
have got my hunting license now. Three other boys and me are going out early in
the morning to hunt until noon. I managed to get a hold of a jeep and hell we
have got it all made now. When you have a jeep, all you have to do is drive
through the woods and shoot them from the jeep and it saves a lot of walking.
Hell, the battery commander even gave me a trailer to take a long. Ha he must
of thought that I (we) were going to bag a lot of game. He knows that I have
already killed an elk and four deer though.
Today is payday, the day you can hear those dice rattle
for three blocks. This is one month that I am going to put my paycheck right
down in the bottom of my sack, and there is where it is going to stay until I
climb off that boat in New York whenever that is.
You know that shampoo that you sent me in that package a
while back? Well I have been looking at it each time I go to take a shower and
saying, “Well I’ll use that damn stuff next time I take a bath.” I waited until
nobody was in the shower room then I slipped down and used it real quick before
someone came in and seen me. The boys would have laughed their heads off if
they had of seen me using that stuff. I couldn’t let it go to waste though.
That shampoo reminds of one of the boys when we first came into the army. This
kid was from the city and had always had his way. He had brought a pair of
pajamas from home to sleep in. The boys laughed at him so damn much that he
threw them away. Ha.
Well I will sign off for this time. Hope you are all well
and that everything is alright there at home.
Love to all,Your son,
Max
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