EDITOR’S NOTE: The letter below includes Clifford’s personal record of his travels and time in combat.
May 23, 1945 3210 CF Hubbaw (near Wustrow), Germany
Clifford types a V-Mail to the Folks; received three letters today, is getting along swell; weather is bad; provides a list of the places where he has been – Weymouth, Eng to La Harve, Fr to La Mire, Fr to Liege, Belgium to Heistern, Ger (through Aachen); was in combat to Cologne, then to southern Germany with the 7th Army and fought from Alsace Lorraine to the Rhine and Mannheim, Ger; then back to the 1st Army to clear up the Ruhr pocket; then north to the 9th Army and crossed the Elbe River; and a few days later the war was over – that’s all there was to it; now on west side of the Elbe; sounds impossible in only 3 months but that’s the mobile Artillery; the prettiest part of Germany is along the Rhine valley – lots of big castles and vineyards (kept by slave labor); our outfit was lucky on casualties; well that’s all for one letter.
