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Letters from Harold J. Dahl

Wednesday [August or September, 1945]

PictureDanstadt in Normandy
Wednesday
[August or September 1945]
 
Dear Mom & Lou,
​
Your news about Jo certainly came as a bombshell - although it would have been more of a surprise had her letter reached me first.  I thought she had been married by now to that aviator.  Of course I will have to see her when I can - it will be fun to find out from her how I have changed in seven years.  When I answered her note I told her many changes had taken place in me since we were such gay kids together.  Sweetie seems to have done well - her husband being military attaché to Spain.
 
Things are all mixed up here - the 80 pointers & men over 35 years old leave Friday - What happens to the rest of us then I don’t know.  Evidently the deactivation will not be complete until the 30th & since this Post is being made a separate Point. One school of thought has it that we will be left here to run it until our own times come.  Well, this isn’t such a bad camp so I shouldn’t mind if it  does work out that way.  Better that than being shipped to some 2nd Army Post in Mississippi.  If I can help it I’m never going south again.
 
Poor Lt. Line!  The officers get out with 85 points & he lacks just one.  We lose (?) Aliopoulas & Ohlson.
 
Danstedt & Erickson were supposed to leave but they got in a fight with some cops in Watertown last night so now they have to stay until the charges against them are satisfied.  Eric also has a bandaged hand - contact with a nightstick was not beneficial.
 
I certainly wish a letter would come from Nancy [Woodell] - it is 3 months since I heard from her & that’s an awfully long time.
 
I look for a letter from Claire [Van Duyne] every day now too - with those pictures we took on my furlough.  I should think they must be ready by now.  Did Vic Peterson ever send the ones he took?  Johnny took one in Ottawa - and also one friend of Jean Charett’s took one of us together & she has promised to send it as soon as she can.  So I should have quite a collection.
 
Give my regards to all the Van Duynes - I think of them often.

Love
Harold





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