Capt. T.G. Leske
633 T.D. BN.
APO304
Fort Lewis, Wash.
8-25-43 (Postmarked Aug 28 1943, Bend, Oregon. No stamp, just "Free" written where the stamp would be.)
Miss Jane Axtell
538 S. Normandie
Los Angeles, #5 California
Hello Jane:
Received your short, snappy, letter with the picture. You sure do look swell and quite a wolfess. It’s really no wonder theat your nights are disturbed with men trying to get ya in their clutches.
You, of course, know where Bend is – well , we are about sixty miles sourth of it and a few dust miles off the highway. Its plain decent, sagebrush and sand. Hot during the day and cold during the night. (Reminds me of my third wife)
Enough for now. Looking at your picture gave me an inspiration for writing but I don’t want to over-do it.
Bye now –
Ted
Pome: (sic)
Shad roe comes from the harlot shad fish:
The shad fish faces a sorry fate.
A pregnant shad fish is a sad fish,
She go that way without a mate.
(what the hell, it filled up the page, anyway)