{"id":4344,"date":"2019-03-06T09:27:25","date_gmt":"2019-03-06T15:27:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/cartmell\/?page_id=4344"},"modified":"2019-03-13T10:47:14","modified_gmt":"2019-03-13T15:47:14","slug":"february-19-1945-needles-california","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/cartmell\/letters\/transition-to-p-61-black-widow-fighter-training-november-1944\/february-19-1945-needles-california\/","title":{"rendered":"February 19, 1945, Needles, California"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\r\n Tom has boarded his train, heading to the east coast for transportation to the war. He’s not supposed to reveal any details about where he’s going, but he hints he’s going to France. (“I might even be able to use some of the language I had so much trouble with in high school.”)\r\n <\/div>\r\n <\/div>Mon. night.<\/p>\n
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February 19, 1945, Needles, California, Page 1<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Dear Folks, (including 828)<\/p>\n

As you can tell by the post mark I have not been wasting much time since I last wrote. We were the first to leave. Don’t say too much about getting any letters from me because once we left Hammer<\/a> our where abouts isn’t suppose to be common knowledge. You can probably tell I am writing this on a train and I don’t know yet where I’ll be able to mail it. For awhile I thought we would come through Chicago but from what I hear that’s out. Our land and overseas destination is still a long ways off. I might even be able to use some of the language I had so much trouble with in high school.[1]<\/sup><\/a>Tom studied French when he was in high school. This sentence was to tell his family that he was going to France, without compromising any secrecy, or so he thought.<\/span><\/span>