While Phil and his men prepared for an extended intensive training period, he wrote home.

June 26, 1944

Lt. P. B. Larimore[1]

Hq Co 3^rd BN. 30^th Inf A.P.O. #3

c/o Postmaster N.Y. N.Y.

Dearest Mother.

Just a note as much as I hate to either send or get V-Mail this is all I have with me so guess it will have to do.

There isn’t much news at the present. If my last letters got to Sue, Bill [Phil’s best friend], and Marilyn [Phil’s fiancée], and they send them to you, this will have a good (out of ink) idea of what has been going on for the last few weeks.

I wrote Sue a very long letter. Hope one of these days she will answer it, and one of these days I must write Doris.

Hope Marilyn won’t mind me writing all these people.

But I do love to get lots of mail and tho at times I can’t find time to answer all of it the day it comes in, I do get it answered some time.

If people only knew how much mail means to boys over seas they would set aside a few minutes each day to write just a note and not on V-Mails either.

Oh yes got a letter from Grandmother, and tell my father he owes me one (I think).

Your son, Phil

[1] Handwritten letter (V-Mail). Very hard to read. Post marked “U.S. Postal Service. No. 3, 7 Jul 44.”

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