Bill Gets a Permanent Army Post
APO space 13135 c/o postmaster New York, N.Y. July 19, 1944 Dear Dorothy, Your letter written on 29 June came yesterday. When I think where I was on that day it makes me break out in prickly heat. I spent a day and night in the hottest place in the world, no, it wasn’t hell but it is said the people who go to hell from there take blankets along. Of course I wouldn’t lay any money on a statement like that. It is said that 120° is considered a cool day. This is a place over in Iran I sure wanted to run from there. Ha ha. Just think it is a month today that I left from New York. Actually it seems like a few days. Finally my orders have come that will send me mighty close to where Bells and Brushes are. To tell you the truth I have missed one plane already. That was because I couldn’t be found when the order came out. Don’t tell a soul but at that time I was visiting one of the friends (Indians) that I have made. That is really where I have been spe...