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Showing posts with label Pacific Theater. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Pacific Theater. Show all posts

Thursday, January 14, 2021

Arnold's Story: February 8, 1945

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 TracyVan Johnson and Robert Mitchum. 







next post  February 9, 1945

previous post  February 2, 1945

first post in Arnold's Story  July 1943

first post in blog  Leonard's Story: May 29, 1943


Thursday, January 7, 2021

Thursday, December 17, 2020

Arnold's Story: July 31, 1944

Hazel is still using the old stationery with the West Fairview address. I don't know why Los Angeles businesses and department stores would be closed on July 31 and August 1 unless a severe cold season was keeping employees sick at home. 




next post  August 4, 1944

previous post  July 29, 1944

first post in Arnold's Story  July 1943

first post in blog  Leonard's Story: May 29, 1943

Friday, November 27, 2020

Arnold's Story: April 2, 1944 V-mail

Don M. Stadt writes from Navy in the war's Pacific Theater about mutual friends, his "butch" haircut, and recent leisure activities.



next post  April 3, 1944

previous post  April 2, 1944

first post in Arnold's Story  July 1943

first post in blog  Leonard's Story: May 29, 1943