Letters To Home - September 26, 1951

Schweinfurt, Germany
September 26, 1951

This is a very warm, foggy evening. It rained most of the day, but now is clearing up and getting warmer.

We leave tomorrow for over two weeks in the field. We will stay at Munnerstadt, on border patrol, for just five days this time, then go the northern part of the U. S. zone for Eucom maneuvers. We don't know yet exactly where we will be headed, but the scuttle-butt has it that we'll be near Cologne. That will be all new territory for us; I'm looking forward to it.

We had a Seventh Army inspection by the general of division artillery yesterday. Supposedly, "B" Battery was top dog as far as artillery batteries are concerned. We really worked the guns over, sanded off all the rust, and re-painted them. They look almost as good as new. These inspections come off twice a year; the next one should be sometime during the Summer.

I'm sending a 10-pfennig coin with this letter. A German mark is now worth 24-cents, and there are 100 pfennigs to a mark, so you can see just how much the coin is worth. To the Germans, though, it's worth about a dime.

Our winter clothes have arrived, but haven't been distributed as yet. The jackets have a thick wool lining, so should be quite warm.

Getting late now, so I'd better close. Jean has been writing quite regularly; she has started school at N. J. C., is now going through initiation.

Write soon.