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Angers France
June 14, 1918 Dear Bess:
I am back with the regiment and sure enough Captain. Have been it seems some six weeks. I'll have about a bushel and a half of francs back pay comming [sic] next pay day. I reckon I can go out and have a real time with it. I just barely slipped through the artillery school as did some of the others. One or two made names for themselves and were promoted out of the regiment as instructors, which means that they'll be second lieutenants until the end of the war, and that they'll not get to the front. I am very glad that I didn't make any such record. I am the Adjutant of the second Battalion 129th F[ield].A[rtillery]. A right hefty job and one that gives me precedence over all the battery captains even if they do outrank me. I've got to organize
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