Dear Lil
   Say, how are you doing lately? Fine I hope.  I'm feeling fine and am in good shape all at one time.  It's been warm out here the last week and its bad when is warm, and when its warm they work us pretty hard.  So I hope it gets cooler and quick too.
   How are the kids?  Do they still cause as much trouble as they did before?  If they do, I'll bet that they drive you nuts.  If I was in your place I would have been in the Insane Asylum long time ago. I don't see how you stand it.
  I got a letter from Wesley
[courtesy of Debra Wozniak[

just the other day and he says he's doing fine but misses home. He's just like me now.  After furlough I was mopy, droopy and everything. That'd because I was homesick but now I got over it.  I'm glad because its no good for my liver to be homesick.  I'm cured now.  I'm getting hard & have no heart anymore.  I'm just getting rugged, after all I've been in a rugged outfit for 2 months.  I just wonder what I'll be like after 6 months.
   Well, I'll close for now. Say hello to Matt & the kids for me.

/s/ Love, Adam
[courtesy of Debra Wozniak[

In Parachute Infantry
    Corp. Guerrino Bau, 318 East Ridge street,  has been named a member of the 508th parachute infantry at Camp Mackall, N.C. where he is in combat training.  He joined the army on October 28, 1942, and was awarded his wings as a parachutist on March 5, 1943.  The 508th Parachute Regiment is made up of trained jumpers, recently returned to camp from airborne maneuvers in the field.

[Wilkes Barre Times-Leader, Wilkes Barre, PA, Wed, July 28, 1943 · Page 15]

Pvt Ruben Withers is now a member of the 508th Parachute infantry in combat training at Camp MacKall [sic] N C He is the son of Mrs. Thelma M Withers Laird Hill.  Pvt Withers joined the Army in October 1942 and won his wings as a parachutist on March 6 1942 [sic].

[The Kilgore News Herald, Kilgore, TX, 04 Aug 1943, Wed, Page 6]

Pvt Davis Wins his Wings
 As U S Parachutist
   Pvt William H. Davis is now a member of the 508th Parachute Infantry in combat training- at Camp Mackall N C., his mother Mrs. Mary Davis resides at 901 W. Main street, Yukon.  He joined the army on Sept 28, 1942 and won his Wings as a United States' parachutist on Feb 26 1943 .Before entering the service he worked for H. B. Freels here.
   The 508th Parachute regiment, made up of trained jumpers, recently returned to camp from airborne maneuvers in the field. The commanding general impressed by its "excellent showing" commended the spirit and discipline shown at all times by the men in spite of inclement weather, fatigue, loss of sleep and hunger."
   The 508th is commanded by Colonel Roy E Lindquist, West Point Class of '30, and a pioneer parachutist.

[The Yukon Oklahoma Sun, Yukon, OK, 05 Aug 1943, Thu, Page 1]

[Note: Davis' first name was Willard, not William, as reported]