A letter expressing sympathy for the loss of Jimmie. He talks about having no hope of leaving the Phillipines a year earlier, but now is reminded of his friends who are still in China and the Phillipines.
A letter thanking Mrs. Pettus for sending a letter of condolence to Mrs. J. W. Monteith. She talks about where Jimmie was before the invasion and the day he was killed.
A letter expressing sympathy for the loss of Jimmie. She also talks about how her garden is drying up and the lawn is getting brown, because the water is low in town.
Jimmie delights in being an uncle. He reflects on the changes in the family within the previous year. Jimmie says that he sold his car due to gas rationing. He mentions a heating problem in the winter. Jimmie talks about going to a college football…
Jimmie tells his father that none of the men know their standings which he thinks is to keep them on their toes. He talks about his tactics course and a river crossing demonstration that he saw. He encloses pictures that his friend Otey took.
Jimmie tells his mother that his friend Clyde is a prisoner of war captured by the Germans in Tunisia along with a complete battalion of the 16th who they then recaptured later on. He says that Germans are good to their prisoners.
Jimmie tells his mother not to worry about him and his brother, Bob. He talks about news he heard in the Stars and Stripes of a strike at the Packard Motor Company. He says that the fact that his mother and Nancy have to cut the grass makes him…
Jimmie talks about the pictures that he received from Nancy in Florida. He talks about animals in Africa and Sicily. He tries to reassure his mother not to worry about the news in the papers and on the radio.
Jimmie talks about England and the kindness of the people there. Jimmie has been overseas for one year on this date. He tells of the good weather to play baseball in.