Major Robert F. Burns90th Division, U.S. ArmyWar Letters from EuropeNormandy to Germany |
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Letters from France June 22, 1944June 29, 1944 June 29, 1944 (2nd) July 6, 1944 July 17, 1944 August 10, 1944 August 14, 1944 August 25, 1944 September 1, 1944 September 2, 1944 September 3, 1944 September 3, 1944 (2nd) September 14, 1944 September 16, 1944 September 16, 1944 (2nd) September 17, 1944 September 28, 1944 October 2, 1944 October 14, 1944 October 22, 1944 November 2, 1944 November 12, 1944 November 24, 1944 December 2, 1944 December 27, 1944 Letters from Luxembourg January 9, 1945January 16, 1945 January 20, 1945 Letter from Belgium February 7, 1945Letters from Germany February 9, 1945February 21, 1945 February 23, 1945 February 26, 1945 April 5, 1945 May 5, 1945 Letters from Czechoslovakia May 10, 1945May 16, 1945 Letters from Germany May 19, 1945May 20, 1945 May 24, 1945 June 3, 1945 June 22, 1945 Letters from France June 30, 1945July 3, 1945 Letters from Germany July 14, 1945July 27, 1945 July 30, 1945 August 3, 1945 August 14, 1945 Letters from France August 26, 1945August 28, 1945 August 29, 1945 Letters from Germany September 9, 1945September 11, 1945 September 13, 1945 September 15, 1945 September 17, 1945 September 23, 1945 September 27, 1945 October 1, 1945 October 9, 1945 Letters from France October 13, 1945October 15, 1945 October 22, 1945 November 5, 1945 November 17, 1945 November 17, 1945 (2nd) November 23, 1945 November 30, 1945 December 17, 1945 December 17, 1945 (2nd) December 18, 1945 December 26, 1945 January 2, 1946 Letters from Belgium January 14, 1946January 15, 1946 January 17, 1946 January 17, 1946 (2nd) Letters from France January 21, 1946January 24, 1946 |
Paris, France November 30, 1945 Dear Mom, Winter is certainly coming - and fast. It continues to get colder and stays pretty gray and hazy. The coffee came last Saturday and I certainly was surprised to find the pajamas with it. I've been wearing them since and find them almost too warm! Many thanks for the package. I'm glad you bought the Barrington coffee and not the G. Washington. This is by far the better. Things are still confused about continuation of the work. It seems now that it may continue until Dec. 31. The French Ministry of Education is interested in continuing the program and may do so if the Army does not. The Director asked the other day how many would want to continue their studies on a civilian basis. He is trying to set it up on the same basis as people discharged to work here in that you still get transportation home. Also he wants to get payments under the G.I. Bill of Rights inasmuch as our Army pay will stop. I put my name in as there is nothing binding about it and it may work out. What I hope is that I can use my terminal leave to stay here. I have about three months coming. My painting is a little better but still comes and goes. I am working now on a portrait of a little French girl. It started well but I am rapidly getting discouraged with it and she is getting quite fed up with posing and wants an end to it. As a result she jumps around a great deal which doesn't make things easier. She's only nine years old and doesn't talk any English so unless her mother is around to keep her quiet, I have my hands full. Today I got rather angry and though she didn't understand my English she grasped my tone and sat as if petrified for 20 minutes. I despise portraiture. With another painting I had some bad luck of another sort. The first edition didn't go so well and I was working on a new painting of the same thing. It was coming along fine and I hoped to have it done for the show of students' work. Then yesterday, the weather tightened the canvas too much and the under painting began to crack. Today almost the whole canvas is in the same condition. The painting is quite ruined and useless. I don't think I can finish a third painting in time. I'd like to be there to celebrate your birthday next week. Since that can't be, I hope you'll have a good day and many of them. Love, Bob |
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