[Envelope]
Lt. P. E. Guckes
USNR. Stamped: U.S. Navy Apr 9 1945
CASU 31
c/o Fleet PO. San Francisco.
PASSED BY NAVAL CENSOR
(initials added)
[2 page letter]
65
CASU 31
C/O Fleet P.O. San
Francisco
7 March 1945
Sweetheart.----
This letter is dated a day
ahead of when I'd write you on the regular every other day schedule,
but I happen to have some free time so I'm getting ahead . I'll
probably not finish it until the 8th any way.
I've just finished dinner,
and have about ¾ of an hour before we go to the movies. Had a very
nice dinner tonight, as the skipper had had [sic] flown in a lot of
oysters which we had fried, and the navy cooks did a good job on
them.
Two of the advance
officers from Maui are down here for a few days informal leave. They
arrived this afternoon, and we all entertained them with cocktails
before dinner. Tomorrow is my day off, and I have a jeep for the
day, so I will be taking the pair of them on a personally conducted
tour of the island, which ought to be fun for all of us. Provided it
stops raining.
Later --- Cain [?] and I are
just back from the movies --- and I need a mouth wash. Don't even go
to see Rosalind Russel in Roughly Speaking. We both got roped in to
seeing it because it became we thought it was a comedy. There just
isn't any excuse to make such junk. The damned thing starts out with
a scene of a funeral and from then on the troubles and [nouans?] just
keep piling up for forty years. Phoooie!
Later – it's Sunday
morning, my day off, and not a thing to do in the dismal rain. I've
had breakfast, and as soon as my room is made up I think I'll stirp
[sic] off my wet clothes and go back to bed for the rest of the
morning. We've had no mail for five days, and there isn't a magazine
on the station I've not read, so there is nothing to do but sleep.
It's a hell of a life. Maybe the war will be over some day.
All my love
Exton
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