Envelope: 3 \u00bd by 6 1\/2, plain<\/p>\n
Return address: Ens CR Cummins<\/p>\n
Flot 30<\/p>\n
Ft Pierce, Pla.<\/p>\n
Address: Mr. D L Cummins, 6109 Greenwood Ave, Chicago, 37, Illinois<\/p>\n
Stamp: handwritten \u201cFree\u201d<\/p>\n
Postmark: U. S. NAVY APR 24 1230 <\/sup>PM 1944, wavy lines<\/p>\n Reverse: handwritten in brown in, in another hand: 3660 3058 49th <\/sup><\/span>\u00a0General Hosp.<\/p>\n A.P.O. \u2105 [I think] Postmaster San Francisco\u00a0 Cal.<\/p>\n Stationery: 6 by 9 \u00bd,\u00a0 Navy Shield (eagle above, anchors at side), below shield :UNITED STATES NAVY<\/p>\n 23 April<\/p>\n 2230<\/p>\n Little Laydie,<\/p>\n How are all the Chicago women these days? How do they manage to exist since my marriage? Did my suitcase arrive? Will send a box soon, with a few articles of \u201cdecoration\u201d for your room. How is that bed these days?\u2014wouldn\u2019t mind being there. Believe me, I am just as anxious to be back in the manor as you are anxious to have me there.<\/p>\n We turned over our boats this morning, so will be merely biding time with inner suspense until we know our next move. We have been very busy, with attendant lack of sleep\u2014the worst day was: after working all day, we had a practice invasion at night with a 2200 H-hour, then an all-night shuttle service\u2014taking supplies to beach\u2014finally coming in at 0745\u2014then mustered at 0800 for a full day\u2019s work.<\/p>\n Weary Robert is going to retire. Joan called last night\u2014was worried because I had not written. Sleep tight, my loved ones,<\/p>\n Bob<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Envelope: 3 \u00bd by 6 1\/2, plain Return address: Ens CR Cummins Flot 30 Ft Pierce, Pla. Address: Mr. D L Cummins, 6109 Greenwood Ave, Chicago, 37, Illinois Stamp: handwritten \u201cFree\u201d Postmark: U. S. NAVY APR 24 1230 PM 1944, wavy lines Reverse: handwritten in brown in, in another hand: 3660 3058 49th \u00a0General Hosp. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,10,4,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-111","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-5","category-letters","category-united-states","category-world-war-ii"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cumminsclan.net\/rc\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cumminsclan.net\/rc\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cumminsclan.net\/rc\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cumminsclan.net\/rc\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cumminsclan.net\/rc\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=111"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cumminsclan.net\/rc\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":112,"href":"https:\/\/cumminsclan.net\/rc\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111\/revisions\/112"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cumminsclan.net\/rc\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cumminsclan.net\/rc\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cumminsclan.net\/rc\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}