I remember from my years in Fresno, California, that people there spoke about "having weather" as if it was not constantly around us. One Fresnan said "we have weather, too" in comparison with the Midwest and East Coast, but meaning that it sometimes rained or rarely snowed or frequently fogged up, but most of the year it was sunny and cloudless. (I guess that is when they did not "have weather".) I see Hazel uses "weather" in the same way.
The U.S. Post Office was extremely efficient in the 1940s, perhaps more than nowadays, some 75 years later. Although I see from this letter that they now have home delivery only once per day instead of the previous twice. I suppose that is why she no longer puts "AM" or "PM" on her letter dates.
God Is My Co-Pilot was a 1943 memoir by Gen. Robert Lee Scott Jr. about his exploits in World War II with the Flying Tigers and the U.S. Army Air Forces in China and Burma. The book was adapted as a film of the same name, released in 1945. The Nazarene was a 1939 novel by Sholem Asch.
Ted W. Lawson wrote Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo as a memoir of his participation in the Doolittle Raid on Tokyo in 1942, which ended in a crash, from which he was rescued by friendly Chinese and then repatriated to the U.S. The book was subsequently adapted into the 1944 film of the same name starring Spencer Tracy, Van Johnson and Robert Mitchum.
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