Cover: plain<\/p>\n
From: Lt(jg) CR Cummins<\/p>\n
USS LST 661<\/p>\n
FPO San Fran. Cal.<\/p>\n
To: Mansion Cummins<\/p>\n
6109 Greenwood Ave.<\/p>\n
Chicago, 37 Illinois<\/p>\n
Postmark: U.S. NAVY 12 DEC 1945, stamped \u201cAIR MAIL\u201d<\/p>\n
Stamp: 6\u00a2 red airmail<\/p>\n
7\u201d x 10.5\u201d paper, gold embossed USN shield, \u201cUnited States Navy\u201d\u2014also embossed, plain<\/p>\n
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11 Dec<\/p>\n
2300<\/p>\n
And soon St. Nicholas will be here\u2014<\/p>\n
(That quotation isn\u2019t quite correct, but I never was much of a poet).<\/p>\n
This letter at Christmastime is from the same place as last year\u2019s\u2014such an unkind Fate, indeed.<\/p>\n
Well, I wonder if you\u2019ll have a tree this year\u2014oh, I know you will\u2014everybody else will be doing the work decorating the tree and pater will sit back in his plush chair surveying the proceedings. Mother would quite likely be in the kitchen baking ice-box cookies (oooh\u2014my mouth waters). Loyd would be complaining because I had a larger handful of icicles than he had. Schwester would be arbitrating\u2014or plotting where to conspicuously plant the mistletoe so that unexpecting David might be caught unawares.<\/p>\n
We arrived this afternoon\u2014a bay a short distance north of Peleliu. We now have 800 Japs on board\u2014shove off tomorrow on a ten day trip to Tokyo Bay. The Japs are a miserable looking lot\u2014all army, navy, and marines. Their stay on Babelthoup (sp?) for the last year was not exactly beneficial. Seemingly they have been affected by half the diseases known to man\u2014largely due to lack and quality of food.<\/p>\n
May you have a lovely Christmas and an extraordinarily humpty-dumpty superb New Years\u2014<\/p>\n
Bob<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Cover: plain From: Lt(jg) CR Cummins USS LST 661 FPO San Fran. Cal. To: Mansion Cummins 6109 Greenwood Ave. Chicago, 37 Illinois Postmark: U.S. NAVY 12 DEC 1945, stamped \u201cAIR MAIL\u201d Stamp: 6\u00a2 red airmail 7\u201d x 10.5\u201d paper, gold embossed USN shield, \u201cUnited States Navy\u201d\u2014also embossed, plain 11 Dec 2300 And soon […]<\/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-53","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\/53","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=53"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cumminsclan.net\/rc\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54,"href":"https:\/\/cumminsclan.net\/rc\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53\/revisions\/54"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cumminsclan.net\/rc\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=53"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cumminsclan.net\/rc\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=53"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cumminsclan.net\/rc\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=53"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}