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5 Dec 45 - This day was spent recovering from KP. After ladling out a grease trap, I knew it was the same old KP. Read Peace Marshal and am reading The Old Dark House--expect to leave here about the 19th. 8 Dec 45 - I dreamed I was home last night and joined Bob Sarver, Harry E. and Kysel who were wearing summer uniforms! Boy, I hope I'm not that late! 13 Dec 45 - [written on a Christmas card which the family had sent me the previous year and which I had received at Karachi on arrival in India] Here's a card you've seen before. It's over a year old but it ought to do the trick. It gave me great happiness last year when I received it here at Karachi. Now back it goes, just as I will in the near future. With it goes my expression of love and good will to all my loved ones and friends. Since this is the only card I am sending, will you remember me to everyone possible, please. This "out" is due, not to laziness, but to conditions here. So whether I'm aground or afloat on Christmas, I shall be thinking of you all and worshiping with you. 17 Dec 45 - Went to chapel and took communion day before. Last night I stood guard at the mess hall from 9:15 to ll:30. I kept the little stove hostled, not for hot water, but for myself. The desert gets the chills every evening about an hour after sunset. Starring (a buddy) is also here. If the Mayflower is in condition, send it over! 20 Dec 45 - Two garbage scows are sliding into harbor about the 27th. 21 Dec 45 - Without mail for a month--should be home about Jan 25. Should be on Callan or Stewart. Suffering from "Malir-ia". 22 Dec 45 - The first ship to go to the west coast from here will be the Callan which I will no doubt be on. 25 Dec 45 - [Christmas] My second and last Christmas in this land is coming to its close, yet in my heart this Christmas is just beginning. While I write these words you are probably stirring in your beds as the alarm clock rings you to wakefulness. I expect to be on a boat before New Year's. 29 Dec 45 - [Last time from India] Lend me your eyes. As you gaze at these terse lines I shall be homeward bound aboard the troopship General Callan. Will debark at Seattle. |
From aboard ship - Pacific Ocean
31 Jan 46 - Pacific Ocean--U.S.S. General Callan--Compartment 5-E--Mail
goes ashore at Pearl Harbor which is two days away, The main thing this
ship lacks is comfort--food is fine--slow poke (20 measly MPH). |
U. S. Army Air Corps insignia |
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