An original handwritten WWII soldier's letter dated 5/23/43, written in ink on United States Army stationery with an embossed gold eagle at the head of each page. It opens "Dear Irene" and is signed "Your Pal, Ray," with a P.S. "I still miss you." The writer says he is still at "W.R.G.H." and does not know how long he will be there. Two pages (front and page 2), about 7.4 x 10.4 inches each. Condition: mailing folds, light toning and soft edge wear; no envelope.

Ray reports that "The WAAC are coming in here," and that once they all arrive the men will be shipped out, "some over sea and some to other hospital in U.S.A." He jokes he would like to stay and see them take care of a man who needs a bed pan, says he is trying to get a furlough with two men ahead of him, and notes that a Larry Koontz is going on a 10-day furlough.

Page 2 asks "How is every thing in Bellevue?" and closes: "I might be here for a month or two, and still I might get ship out next week. They some going every week."

A readable home-front-to-hospital letter touching on the arrival of the Women's Army Auxiliary Corps at an Army general hospital in 1943.