Letter and cover were torn in half by JES when MSC found them in the attic with others. She didn\u2019t think they were anyone\u2019s business. She threw them away and MSC recovered them. MSC taped them together (before I knew better).<\/p>\n
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Cover: \u201cAIR MAIL\u201d between two bars in lower right corner<\/p>\n
From: Lt(jg) CR Cummins<\/p>\n
USS LST 661<\/p>\n
FPO San Fran. Cal.<\/p>\n
To: Mrs. and Mr. CM Cummins<\/p>\n
6109 Greenwood Ave.<\/p>\n
Chicago, 37, Illinois<\/p>\n
Stamp: 6\u00a2 Airmail<\/p>\n
Postmark: [top torn away] NAVY, center 19 MAY 1945<\/p>\n
Censor: PASSED BY NAVY CENSOR, initialed<\/p>\n
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19 May<\/p>\n
0600<\/p>\n
Hi! little ones,<\/p>\n
Here am I back again with all the news from your belligerent.<\/p>\n
I have learned that there will not be as long a pause as I had thought, due to stopovers. So I won\u2019t be away from my mail as long as I had thought. This is the sum total of the news\u2014lots, isn\u2019t it?<\/p>\n
Today I am going to make some last minute purchases\u2014there is no way of telling what they are going to be. Tonight I will have dinner at the Robinsons, to complete my extended stay in these regions.<\/p>\n
According to the clipping you sent me there were 19 errors made in the Wheaton-Herzl baseball game. My heavens! what were they playing\u2014fumbleball? The final score make it sound like a high-scoring basketball game.<\/p>\n
Yes, pop, I pay rather close attention to the news\u2014much more than I ever did in my pre-Navy overseas time. Our radios are and will be giving us the up-to-the-minute news. While we are here we have the daily newspaper almost every day. Today I have a roommate moving in, an army medical corps captain\u2014should provide excellent company. Now and then I feel the need to have new blood around here for company. This outfit will be on board approximately a month. they are going to the present location of our former travelling companions.<\/p>\n
Who is this Mrs. John Netherton, mother, that you arrowed on the letterhead?<\/p>\n
Why hasn\u2019t that little brat brother of mine written? I am most anxious to hear of the Wheaton news\u2014studies, baseball and, naturally the Wheaton belles.<\/p>\n
Either plain or chocolate bits cookies, mom. Now, of course, they will have farther to travel, but the crumbs are just as good as the whole ones\u2014for essentially the difference is only the construction. Usually I like to have a bit to nibble upon\u2014though our food here has been so good that I did not find it necessary. I must begin reducing one of these months, too.<\/p>\n
I hope your weather improves soon\u2014you would love it out here in these parts (especially mother).<\/p>\n
I wish I had know more about Bill Banks\u2019 location. He might have been in here at some time. From now on I shall probably run into more of my friends as this is the one and only war now.<\/p>\n
It wasn\u2019t Robert who painted the inside of the cady. I think that was Mrs. CMC\u2014remember, she missed so many spots. If you think that color of green is bad, you should see some of these ship camaflauge (sp.) greens\u2014ugh!<\/p>\n
From now on you will have more pictures, as I was able to obtain a few rolls of film.<\/p>\n
Lots and oodles of love & kisses,<\/p>\n
Bob<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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