October 19, 1944

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Thurs (noon) 19 Oct 44

My dearest,

Sheck! Shucks! & Shocks! no

letter waiting for me this noon hour

time when I got back for a “intermission”

from some heavy work. However, I’ll

write as much of a letter (maybe) a completed

one) as I can this noon & then fill

in this evening c̅[1] answers etc that

will surely arrive in your lovely

(& much delayed—not your fault, darlin’) letter

that just has to come in this Thursday

afternoons mail.

Before I go further—how do

letters seem to run? By that I mean

does it seem that the censor works

regular mail schedule, or does it

see that censoring work piles up &

thus letters get bunched into certain

day-zones or hour-zones? I just

wonder, as I write fairly chronologically

& I just wondered if they go into

US Mail hands fairly chronologically.

Anyhooo, (above) I mentioned

back from “heavy-work.” Sort of a

[2]

messy, tedious & time consuming job

that befalls an Army doctor are

genital inspections either as such

or as a part (included) in a general

examination of enlisted men. wonder

These exams run for different reasons

& sometimes the number to be done

(per reason) are pretty huge. Guess you

remember I use to do over 700 at

a time while playing “negro nursemaid”

back about 2 weeks ago. Well, a call

came today for our outfit to supply

5 (out of the total) docs to work all day

at various parts of a physical

examination on white soldiers.

You don’t need to even guess whose

name was on that list—whenever

kinda “rotten” jobs are up, ol’ Doc

“Wilitzski”[2] is always in on the ground-

floor. Sooo for the past 4 hours I

have been doing 8,000 of those special specific

examinations. This afternoon promises

to be almost as many from what they say.

This all [(above)][3] is sorta “insult-to-injury,”

& it is pretty hard to explain it on

paper, let alone being difficult enough by

verbal words. [I refer to the “insult-to-injury” part].[4]

 

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[1] Medical abbreviation meaning “with.”

[2] Wilsey’s nickname for himself.

[3] Bracketed text inserted into original with a caret.

[4] Bracketed text is part of original.