Arnold's Story: October 16, 1945

Although World War II is technically over, Arnold is now posted to Camp Pinedale near Fresno, California. He mentions his stay at home (by which he certainly means Glendale), so perhaps that stay included the visit to Mount Wilson. 

Suntan pants and shirts are trousers and shirts of lightweight tan or khaki fabric that make up the summer uniform of some branches of the military.

There are no more letters from 1945 — a gap in the record. The next information from Arnold shows him in Japan in early 1946, then moving on quickly to Korea, where he will spend several months.

I could not figure out the date of this black and white photo; it looks to be in a desert. Perhaps it is from the San Joaquin Valley, with the Sierra Nevada Mountain foothills in the background.

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Arnold's Story: 1945 misc

I discovered this letter a bit late to place in order for 1945. The envelope shows it is from Arnold's Boston days and seems to describe activities from his lumberjack time in northern California.

Here is a July 12, 1945, envelope from Harry Schmidt, whose contents I could not find, but the envelope shows Arnold now six or seven hours up the road from Glendale at Camp Pinedale, Fresno. (I lived about a half mile from there between 1990 and 1995 when I taught at California State University Fresno, a factoid I just calculated right now.)

I am not sure who Eva is, but here is an undated photo and note from here. The ranch she mentions might be the Elmer's logging camp; that is of course a complete guess on my part. The photo and note  may be from a year or two earlier.

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