P.F.[C]. SAM E. SMITH 34635335
Hq. Co. 51st. ARMD. INF. BN.
A.P.[O]. 254 c/o P.M. N.Y., N.Y. 
U.S. [A]RMY POSTAL SER[VIC]E
254
OCT
1
1944
A.P.O.
U.S. POSTAGE 
6¢
VIA AIR MAIL
pushing through France
SEPT. 29 1944
[PAS]SED BY
U 105 36 S
ARMY EXAMINER
Lt R B Chapman
Mrs. S. H. Smith
Pittsboro, Miss.


Sept 29, 1944
Dear Mother,
I got a letter from you several days 
back but haven't had one lately.
You remember the place where you said 
you hoped I wasn't. Well that's where I 
was. We are a little farther on now.
Bad weather seems to have slowed down 
the war. Men can't do much when they are 
wet and muddy.
Some thought the war would be over by 
the last of September but here it is the 
last of September and it isn't over by a long 
shot from the way the Hinies keep slinging
88's. I don't think it will be over for quite 
some time. 
No I have never seen anyone I knew. 
I seldom see anybody outside my own outfit 
and the McKelory boy is the only one that 
I know and he is in another battillion. 
How are the Lums getting along? Tell
them I said howdy.
How are Leon and his younguns making
out? I guess that boy is a whopper by
now. Has Leon been doign any squirrel hunt-
ing? 
I guess Scoop Carter is home by this time 
I wouldn't doubt him being sent over seas
when he get's back from his furlough. They 
pb probably alrady have his Congressional 
medal of Honer picked out and shined up.
I haven't received the box you sent
yet. I guess it will eventually get here


however.
We have only been paid once since we 
have been over here and I still have that.
I am saving a hundred percent of my pay. 
We ran upon some trenches that were
dug in the last war. They must have 
really dug them deep in those days.
Well that's all I can think of. Will writ[e]
when I get time.
Love from
Sonny Boy