04 Mar March 4, 1945

Return address: War and Navy Departments
To: Mrs. Alice Shonkwiler
Date: 3-4-45

Hello Again:

Jim Jacobs, one of my latest pals is sitting next to me writing his
wife, too.  I have already written <? five> pages while he has been
laboring over one. Every time I turn over a new sheet, he <? tears>
his hair. How am I doing kid?  Suppose you think it’s about time
<? ks> I know one V-mail isn’t much but then you get me and I can’t
get any from you, not yet anyhow.

Guess I told you I crossed the channel a week ago. Today on a
<? living> boat and it was all <? living> even down to the <? tea>
and beans breakfast. The channel was very smooth and we landed in
La Harvre. That place was really a mass of destruction.
What we didn’t destroy by bombs the Germans did before they gave up.
one more Geo.

V-MAIL