June 17, 1944

(Letter from Vic to younger brother Paul, sent from Bougainville, Solomon Islands to Berkeley, California. Photo shows a soldier washing up using a rations can as a basin.

Saturday,

Dear Paul,

Just have time to write you a brief line to-day. Am enclosing five negatives within this envelope. Please inform me if they arrive OK; and, if so; have a few printed and send the folks a set and a couple of the best ones to Jake Valentine, Elmer Balzer, Bob Greubel, George Conrad, Ray Reed, Bill Fiala, and Sgt. R.M. Mueckler (address follows). Perhaps Rudy & Ed would like to make some prints so forward them on to them with a reminder that they please send the negatives home to the folks when they've no further use for same.


Say how long do these letters require for passage to you? notice some of our out-going letters may be within the battery for quite some time before local censorship passes same. These with negatives travel via normal route and must pass base censorship somewhere enroute. I'll write an air-mail letter soon.


Best regards from you brother,
Vic