French football game

French football game

310.273.1-3.2017

United States--Armed Forces--Military Life

Wilsey, David B., MD

The Wilsey Collection

The Holocaust Center for Humanity

310.273.1-3.2017 Transcription

 

[This letter is written on Red Cross paper, with a thick, red cross and the words “AMERICAN RED CROSS” printed on the top of each page.]

Paris (241^st Gen Hsp)

4 Nov. 45 Sun.

Hi, darlin’,

Not as I dreamed——

c̅[1] you beside me in the good

ol’ Big Ten——but alone

I saw my first football game

today. It was between the

Seine (Paris elete) Base “Comets” & the

Oise Base “Red Devils” in a

Paris stadium. Not only was

I fur da Oise-boys because

they were the underdogs but

because (^#1) I can wear a USFET

shoulder patche c̅ OISE embro[i]dered

underneath it if I wish (via my

189^th G.H. assignment) (^#2) they wear

[2]

uniforms exactly like U of Wis[consin]

as to color (^#3) the only Wisconsin

boy on either team was on

Oise (from Monticello, Wis—Dad use to hunt

ducks there as a member of the famous “Tillicum

Gun Club”) & (^#4) it was double

satisfaction seeing the elete,

always-get-everything, hoggish

Paris-boys get beat—to

not get something (towit, victory) for

a change. Anyhoooo, Oise 14

Seine 13 in the wildest,

most scatterbrain games you

have ever seen. It was so

er[r]atic & wild at times that it

almost made ya laugh. P.S. A

truck took & brought patients from the hosp

front door. Butttttttt, geeeeeeeee,

how I wish my hawney & I

were holding hands at Camp

Randall Stadium instead. Once

upon a time, in early Z-I[2] days,

I’d have bet ^$100 we would get

[3]

to go to a game together but—

lookie how The Med. Chain can

snafu, bungle, & “inadequize” (whadda word!).

I never reped too many

times that 2 bed rolls are

enroute via Parcel Post. Id

hate to lose any of either, but

especially I’d hate to lose the

electro-16m.m.-camera in one &

my beaver short coat in the

other. AND! pleeeeeez, dont

you dare try to wash a single

thing inside either bed roll—

the stuff is just too damn

filthy from upfront-War & too

loaded c̅ D.D.T.-powder—

LET A COMMERICIAL LAUNDRY DO IT.

Again! [sigh][3] yes again [sigh][4]

they say we are supposed to

[4]

get out of here this week (next 7 days).

Air-evac. gets farther & farther

away as to possibility each

day, so that means 8½^X to 10½^X

longer a trip via boat. We

shall see again [sigh][5] what we

shall see again ! [sigh][6].

Gosh, darlin’, how I ache to

see you & Terry[7] ! How I

ache to see America—how

I ache to see H-O-M-E—

where I can forever say—

All my love to you, dearest,

Dave

 

[1] Medical abbreviation meaning “with.”

[2] Refers to being sent back to the Zone of the Interior (The United States).

[3] Bracketed text is part of original.

[4] Bracketed text is part of original.

[5] Bracketed text is part of original.

[6] Bracketed text is part of original.

[7] Their infant son.