Pvt. Wm D. Johnson Jr # 34945847 May 23, 1944
B. Co, 226th trng. Bn.
69th Regt. IRTC
Camp Blanding Fla.
“B” Co.
Monday Nite
9:45 P.M.
Dearest Mom & Dad
Just 10 min. till lights out but I want to write you all a note. I am fine but dont have time to do anything yet. May be we’ll have more time after we get started.
Got your note Mom before I left McPherson and surely was glad to hear. This is tough training, but I’ll make it. I’m in a Message Center and will train as telegraph operator & intelligence. It is still infantry tho & I have to take all the infantry trg in addition to the schooling.
Tell Macey & Rip my address when you write them. I haven’t had time to write them yet. Please tell Louise you heard from me & I’m fine. I may not get a chance to write her in a couple of days.
I’m in a specially tough branch. We’ve got to be the telegraphers & cryptographers about 500 yrds behind the fighting but we’ve got to be hard fighters to cope with the infiltration tactics & parachutists of the infantry.
Don’t worry about me, it is doing me good.
You all write & don’t count letters with me.
Love always
Dave