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Letters from Harold J. Dahl

May 18, 1944

PictureEngland
To: Mrs. Anna M. Dahl
Towaco
New Jersey
 
From: Sgt. H.J. Dahl 12161982
Co. D 603rd Eng. Cam. Btn.
23rd Hqs Sp. Trs.
A.P.O. 656
C/O Postmaster, New York
 
[Thursday]
May 18, 1944
VMail
 
Dear Mom & Lou,
Well, I haven’t seen very much of England but can already understand why people should want to fight for it! The whole place is so tidy Mother wouldn’t have to move a thing!
 
Today was our first mail call - there were a number of letters from you, dated up to the 8th, four from Wilda, one from Kay Knapp and the long lost letter from Mary [Van Duyne] who used the address I had almost a year ago and which has been changed 4 times since!
 
I wish I could see Towaco, but am comforted considerably by the scenes that are all around me - including the loveliest trees ever.  One linden must be 4 or 5 feet in diameter.  A couple of the boys are landscape men and are over whelmed and I am sure George [Dahl] would be crazy about it.
 
Sure, Dubie & Chris knew me - and Chris is really remarkable.  She poured wine for Dubie and herself among other amazing feats.  Manages a knife & fork very well too.  Did I tell you Clint is an Ensign now?
 
It doesn’t look like I could do much of any visiting but hope to see one or too little towns if I get a pass.
​
Love
Harold




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