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lish people.Since the end of February I have been in six different countries. Belgium is a real nice place and we had a good time while there. When we came back from leave the Regt. had moved into Germany. We are roughing here in the woods, but the weather has been good so we don't mind it. Yesterday a Spitfire made a forced landing and crashed near here—the pilot, a Polish chap, wasn’t hurt other than a few cuts. He was hit with flak while flying over the front lines. We have a new vehicle in the platoon now, an armoured 15 cwt. and is quite the jalopy.Have received quite a few copies of the local paper lately. Just up the road there is a buzz bomb site^with quite a few bombs lying around-this area. In Belgium the bombs used to fly over our camp and boy what a noise they made! None fell near us though and they used to shoot most of them dov/n. Love to all,JOHN.Mrs. Jack Nesbitt (nee Helen Lycett, Newcastle), 364 Simcoe i St. S., Oshawa, has received thefollowing letter from her husband Fit. Lieut. Jack Nesbitt:Germany, April 5th.Please forgive me for not writing the last four days. I have been tearing along with Monty and his men on his finishing-up race. I needn’t be here but my natural curiosity made me volunteer for it. I’m not sorry either. It has been a real experience. It is not at all comfortable but thrilling enough that the days fly by. I have only 30 of my men with me. We crossed the Rhine last week and are doing it up in style. We’ve had eggs and chicken. Yesterday, I made a reconnoiter for drinking water and found the nearest at a milk factory 20 miles away. Now we are having real butter—a grand change from margarine. I have been so used to it for years that I couldn’t remember real butter.I’ve commandeered a beer parlor for a house and we are living here. The boys are noisy in the next room tonight. We found a factory of alarm clocks. All night I hear alarms ripping out of the stillness. The bomb damage in this part of Germany is really inconceivable. I’ve seen nothing like it anywhere.JACK NESBITT.
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Bowmanville Canadian Statesman
Bowmanville, Ontario, CA
Thu, May 10, 1945
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