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1st Lt. L. G. Johnson

Knights of Columbus
OVERSEAS SERVICE
ON ACTIVE SERVICE WITH AMERICAN EXPEDITIONARY FORCES

A.P.O. 761

Prum, Germany

Dec 15, 1918

Dear Mother

This leaves me well and living like a broadway milliionaire, a strictly modern home, running water, 
electric lights etc. a good German town, 12 foot cars and two motorcylces, in which I see considerable 
of [illegible text] every day. I host every day I drive, or am driven, as I always have a chauffer, 
from 25 to 100 miles.

You see I am now in the supply Co of the Regiment and do a lot of running around [illegible text] 
and getting suppliers for 2300 men and even 300 houses and [illegible text]

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on these good roads it is easy to make 25 or 30 miles an hour in a motorcylce, the country is just 
beautiful, very mountainous and the roads go winding around the hills. It just reminds one of movie 
scenes all the time.

The people in Ger. are very friendly to the Am. soldiers and want them to come into their homes.

Over here troops are always killed in the little towns instead of having large camps as in the U.S. 
The owner of my present happy home was a medical officer in the Germ. Army and just came home. No 
doubt he appreciates his house as well as

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Don't worry about me [illegible text] the [illegible text] of clothes etc, for I have every thing 
imaginable in the way of clothes. Could I [illegible text] more at all.

Knights of Columbus
OVERSEAS SERVICE
ON ACTIVE SERVICE WITH AMERICAN EXPEDITIONARY FORCES

A.P.O.

DATE

Since leaving the U.S.A. have been a good many places,Canada, Nova Scotia, England, France, Belgium, 
Luxembourg, and now Germany.

I went through the last two fights the Americans had without a scratch and haven't been sick a day. 
Saint Michel Sept. 14, The final crash through the Argonne region. Nov. 1st to 11th when all stopped 
at 11a.m. The Americans going through there would have caused the utter defeat of the whole Ger army 
on the West Front had they

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not been granted the armistice. Just the same I am glad they got it, for it was much easier to march 
up to our present location without the sound of a gun then it would have been with cheer cursed artillery 
and gas spraying upon us all the time as it did in all the advances before Nov.11.

Well I hope you have still succeeded in keeping the "flu" from the door, and also that it doesn't find 
[illegible text] and the baby I expect I get home sometime next spring but of course have no more way 
of knowing than the man in the moon.

At an [sic] rate this is a fully good place to stay and they can leave me here a while and [sic] i 
won't pick. Good bye and love to all.

Glen 

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Lt. J.G. Johnson
354 Inf Amer. E. F.

U.S. ARMY POST OFFICE
M.P.E.S
12 M 
DEC 22
761
1918

Officers Mail

Mrs. W. L. Johnson
1310 Alexander St.
Kirksville, MO

A.E.F. PASSED AS CENSORED 1091

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