Cover: red and blue stripes around edge, \u201cVia Air Mail\u201d in blue [don\u2019t recognize the font]<\/p>\n
From: Lt(jg) CR Cummins<\/p>\n
USS LST 661<\/p>\n
FPO San Fran. Cal<\/p>\n
To: The Cummins<\/p>\n
6109 Greenwood Ave.<\/p>\n
Chicago, 37, Illinois<\/p>\n
Postmark: U.S. NAVY 31 DEC 1945<\/p>\n
Stamp: 6\u00a2 red airmail<\/p>\n
reverse: HAPPY BIRTHDAY!\/ESTEEMED SISTER\/AND BROTHER<\/p>\n
5.5\u201d x 9\u201d paper, plain<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
30 Dec<\/p>\n
2200<\/p>\n
Dear Ones,<\/p>\n
Tomorrow we head for Guam\u2014about a seven day trip for our speed demon. This means mail<\/span>\u2014seems ages since we had any. In the same mail as this letter I am requesting my release. I should have my answer a few days after we arrive at the Guam.<\/p>\n We are proceeding independently\u2014so hope that we don\u2019t get lost.<\/p>\n I have had a bad cold the last few days, so have done nothing other than take the ship around and play some baseball. We entered a tournament, were defeated in the semi-finals.<\/p>\n From Guam the ship will go somewhere to pick up some more Japs.<\/p>\n I\u2019ll be thinking much of you<\/p>\n –Bob<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Cover: red and blue stripes around edge, \u201cVia Air Mail\u201d in blue [don\u2019t recognize the font] From: Lt(jg) CR Cummins USS LST 661 FPO San Fran. Cal To: The Cummins 6109 Greenwood Ave. Chicago, 37, Illinois Postmark: U.S. NAVY 31 DEC 1945 Stamp: 6\u00a2 red airmail reverse: HAPPY BIRTHDAY!\/ESTEEMED SISTER\/AND BROTHER 5.5\u201d x 9\u201d paper, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,9,10,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-7","category-aboard-ship","category-letters","category-world-war-ii"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cumminsclan.net\/rc\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45","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=45"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cumminsclan.net\/rc\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46,"href":"https:\/\/cumminsclan.net\/rc\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45\/revisions\/46"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cumminsclan.net\/rc\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cumminsclan.net\/rc\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cumminsclan.net\/rc\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}