Arnold's Story: June 28, 1944

This letter from Hazel Nevis to Arnold reveals that Leonard is at home on leave.

The Republican Convention that year nominated Thomas E. Dewey and running mate John W. Bricker. By the way, Bill and Hazel Nevis were solid Republicans until Richard M. Nixon ran a nasty and ultimately successful campaign for Senate in 1950 against Representative Helen Gahagan Douglas. They were so turned off by Nixon's distasteful tactics (for which he acquired the nickname "Tricky Dick") that they registered to vote as Democrats after that. I do not know if they changed parties back again, but I assume so.

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Arnold's Story: June 18, 1944

The Nevis family correspondence shows that sometimes letters to one person were occasionally forwarded to another. This one is written to Leonard, who was fighting in the Philippines, then forwarded to Arnold, who was still in communications training in Connecticut. 

Aunt Belle was Arnold and Leonard's paternal aunt Belle Nevis Bettancourt (Isabelle or Isabel or Bella). Alvin is her son, so their older cousin by some ten years.

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Arnold's Story: May 26, 1944

Hazel Nevis writes on May 26 with news from the neighborhood families. Arnold Nevis also graduated from Herbert Hoover High School in Glendale, so presumably he and "Johnny" Eggleston were classmates or else they knew each other from the neighborhood.

John E. Eggleston, Glendale News-Press

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Arnold's Story: May 24, 1944

Dolly Nevis is about a year younger than her brother Arnold and more than two years younger than their eldest sibling Leonard.

an undated photo of Dolly Nevis from the time of World War II

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Arnold's Story: May 14, 1944

Hazel Nevis writes to her son Arnold on Mother's Day, 1944. 

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Arnold's Story: May 8, 1944

V-mail from Don M. Stadt in New Guinea awaiting deployment to Arnold in Army Air Forces Technical Training at Yale University:

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Arnold's Story: May 6, 1944

Carl Cummings may be the close friend that Arnie lost in the war. He stayed in touch with his friend's mother and she gave him a Limoges china plate. It stood in a place of honor in our home in Gainesville for over fifty years. 

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Arnold's Story: April 30, 1944

Arnie sent his parents a booklet called "Aviation Cadets" or "Technical School, AAFTTC for Aviation Cadets", from his time training at Yale University.

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