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This is a very interesting original 2 page WWII letter written in Germany on the 12th of May 1945, only four days after VE Day, by an American soldier in the 308th Engineer Combat Battalion of the 83rd Infantry Division. There is interesting content, including a very bitter segment in which this soldier expresses his belief that the army was going to break certain promises which had been made to the soldiers while they were fighting. This man was very lonely and wanted to go home, and he was frustrated that the army appeared to have no plan in place to get it's soldiers back home to the United States:

"I am just fine, thank the good Lord, but honey I am still so lonesome for you I can't hardly stand it. But I will be home with my darling one of these days soon, I believe. We still don't know what they are going to do with us. I don't believe they want us to come home. They wanted us to fight and promised us everything and in the end we don't get anything but a disappointment. But they won't keep us here always, surely. I love you so honey. The good Lord will bring me home one of these days. I hope and pray it is soon...

Honey. they are trying to work your little man's butt plum off. But I will do anything if it will bring me home to you any faster."

The letter was written by P.F.C. Rex Hamby of Company A, 308th Engineer Combat Battalion. Hamby served in five campaigns in the E.T.O. after landing in Normandy in 1944.