{"id":4323,"date":"2019-02-27T12:25:06","date_gmt":"2019-02-27T18:25:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/cartmell\/?page_id=4323"},"modified":"2019-02-27T12:25:06","modified_gmt":"2019-02-27T18:25:06","slug":"february-15-1945-fresno-california","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/cartmell\/letters\/transition-to-p-61-black-widow-fighter-training-november-1944\/february-15-1945-fresno-california\/","title":{"rendered":"February 15, 1945, Fresno, California"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div class='dropshadowboxes-container ' style='width:auto;'>\r\n                            <div class='dropshadowboxes-drop-shadow dropshadowboxes-rounded-corners dropshadowboxes-inside-and-outside-shadow dropshadowboxes-lifted-both dropshadowboxes-effect-default' style=' border: 1px solid #dddddd; height:; background-color:#edf2f9;    '>\r\n                            Tom is leaving in a few hours to go overseas. He describes his packing routine.\r\n                            <\/div>\r\n                        <\/div>Thurs. noon.<\/p>\n<p>Dear Dad and Cleda,<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_4327\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4327\" style=\"width: 150px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/cartmell\/wp-content\/uploads\/February-15-1945-Fresno-California-Page-1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-4327\" src=\"https:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/cartmell\/wp-content\/uploads\/February-15-1945-Fresno-California-Page-1-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"February 15, 1945, Fresno, California, Page 1\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" title=\"\"><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4327\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">February 15, 1945, Fresno, California, Page 1<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Well this is it &#8211; and I did want to drop you a line before leaving.<\/p>\n<p>I have been pretty busy the last few days, however <a href=\"https:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/cartmell\/people\/andy-harold-a-anderson\/\">Andy<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/cartmell\/people\/mort-and-laurale-blaisdell\/\">Mort<\/a> and I did go up to Merced Mon. We were trying to find Allen Carter, you remember the boy Mort and I graduated with at Luke. He had left Merced last Oct. to go into the troop carrier command so we didn&#8217;t have much luck. We did get to see <a href=\"https:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/cartmell\/people\/ted-lewis\/\">Ted Lewis and his band<\/a> which helped out on the trip.<\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"Some Of Ted&#039;s Old Favorites\" width=\"474\" height=\"356\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/eg7UKFGqAv4?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>I have been having quite a time packing. Everytime I thought I am about through I&#8217;d find something else. All our baggage was sent out this morning and I think I got everything in. I had my B4 bag, that one Mort and I got in Phoenix, and big parachute bag, and the new leather bag Zoe gave me. All of them are jammed.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_4328\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4328\" style=\"width: 150px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/cartmell\/wp-content\/uploads\/February-15-1945-Fresno-California-Page-2.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-4328\" src=\"https:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/cartmell\/wp-content\/uploads\/February-15-1945-Fresno-California-Page-2-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"February 15, 1945, Fresno, California, Page 2\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" title=\"\"><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4328\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">February 15, 1945, Fresno, California, Page 2<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>My battle jacket came and it is really swell. They are alot more comfortable than a blouse. Uncle Leslie didn&#8217;t my bill so when you write you might ask about it. Tell him to let me know and I&#8217;ll send the money.<\/p>\n<p>Well I want to drop Elaines&#8217; a letter so will sign off. There might be a period of a couple of weeks when you won&#8217;t get any letters but don&#8217;t think anything of it as that is alot of times the case. I&#8217;ll write as much as possible.<\/p>\n<p>With love,<\/p>\n<p>Tom<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_4329\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4329\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/cartmell\/wp-content\/uploads\/February-15-1945-Fresno-California.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-4329\" src=\"https:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/cartmell\/wp-content\/uploads\/February-15-1945-Fresno-California-300x158.jpg\" alt=\"February 15, 1945, Fresno, California\" width=\"300\" height=\"158\" title=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/cartmell\/wp-content\/uploads\/February-15-1945-Fresno-California-300x158.jpg 300w, https:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/cartmell\/wp-content\/uploads\/February-15-1945-Fresno-California.jpg 648w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4329\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">February 15, 1945, Fresno, California<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thurs. noon. Dear Dad and Cleda, Well this is it &#8211; and I did want to drop you a line before leaving. I have been pretty busy the last few days, however Andy, Mort and I did go up to Merced Mon. We were trying to find Allen Carter, you remember the boy Mort and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/cartmell\/letters\/transition-to-p-61-black-widow-fighter-training-november-1944\/february-15-1945-fresno-california\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">February 15, 1945, Fresno, California<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":1698,"menu_order":8150,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4323","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","category-from-tom-cartmell-to-doctor-and-cleda-cartmell"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/cartmell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4323","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/cartmell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/cartmell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/cartmell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/cartmell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4323"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/cartmell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4323\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4330,"href":"https:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/cartmell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4323\/revisions\/4330"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/cartmell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1698"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/cartmell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/cartmell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/cartmell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}