{"id":4374,"date":"2019-03-09T16:47:42","date_gmt":"2019-03-09T22:47:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/cartmell\/?page_id=4374"},"modified":"2019-03-13T10:38:14","modified_gmt":"2019-03-13T15:38:14","slug":"march-15-1945-in-italy","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/cartmell\/letters\/transition-to-p-61-black-widow-fighter-training-november-1944\/march-15-1945-in-italy\/","title":{"rendered":"March 15, 1945, In Italy"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\r\n Tom has landed in Italy on his way to join up with his assigned night fighter squadron. He experienced a very cold night in a tent on a cot. He’s glad he was born in the U.S.\r\n <\/div>\r\n <\/div>Afternoon
\nMarch 15, 45.
\n“In Italy”<\/p>\n
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Dear Folks,<\/p>\n

This will have to be another joint letter but hope you don’t mind. Besides there isn’t an awfully lot that I can say other than I am mighty glad that this boy was born in the U.S. I think about everyone feels the same way. I’ll be able to tell you more at a later date but from what I have seen so far someone has really given this country a going over.<\/p>\n

I am enclosing alittle allied currency that we have to exchange all our American currency for, one lire is equal to 1 cent, a 100 lire bill is about like a dollar bill.<\/p>\n

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March 15, 1945, In Italy, Page 2<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I just about froze last night. We have tents with wooden floors (the difference between officers quarter and enlisted men’s) but no stoves. I had two blankets on the bottom of the cot (canvas), two sleeping bags, one inside the other, and two more blankets on top. I wore P.J.’s and socks. They say to keep your face out of the bag, but after freezing for several hours I went down in the sack and zipped it closed. It was till cold but not so drafty. Tonight I’m wearing my flying boots and heavy flying gear. I have heard that awhile back several of the boys in one tent pulled up part of the floor and built a fire in the middle. Another night like last and I think I’ll follow suit.<\/p>\n

Our food is pretty good and the mess building and officers club look something like something the Germans used.<\/p>\n

There isn’t much else to say, I did get some letters from Zoe but so far that’s all. However, the mail service isn’t to certain and most of hers had been forwarded to me from Hammer<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Hope everything is OK with all of you. I’m OK and things don’t look too bad.<\/p>\n

Love,<\/p>\n

Tom<\/p>\n

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Afternoon March 15, 45. “In Italy” Dear Folks, This will have to be another joint letter but hope you don’t mind. Besides there isn’t an awfully lot that I can say other than I am mighty glad that this boy was born in the U.S. I think about everyone feels the same way. I’ll be … Continue reading March 15, 1945, In Italy<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":1698,"menu_order":8505,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4374","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","category-from-tom-cartmell-to-doctor-and-cleda-cartmell","category-tom-cartmell-to-elaine-and-stanley-hughey"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/cartmell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4374","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=4374"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/cartmell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4374\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4425,"href":"https:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/cartmell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4374\/revisions\/4425"}],"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=4374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/cartmell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/cartmell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}