Dear Mother & Dad,
I am writing this Practically standing on my head. Well what did you think of Italy surrendering? Good wasn’t it. It shorten the war by a month now if Germany would just give up easy things would be swell. I went to town on pass the other day and we decided to hike up to a town up on top of a mountain. It was about 10 miles straight up from where we were at the time. It was really some walk. The town was about the cleanest place I have been in yet. They had some old churches and an old castle. That’s the way they used to build their cities over here, on top of a mountain. We had stakes today for dinner and I sure ate my plate of it. I’m beginning to gain back some of the weight I lost in the last campaign. Well goodbye and pardon the scribbles.
Your son
“Chick”
Your Son, ‘Chick’
