{"id":4436,"date":"2019-03-14T11:17:05","date_gmt":"2019-03-14T16:17:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/cartmell\/?page_id=4436"},"modified":"2019-04-06T11:11:07","modified_gmt":"2019-04-06T16:11:07","slug":"march-28-1945-southern-france","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/cartmell\/letters\/417th-night-fighter-squadron-march-1945\/march-28-1945-southern-france\/","title":{"rendered":"March 28, 1945, Southern France"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\r\n Tom is trying V-Mail<\/a> as a means of writing to his parents, thinking that because the processing plant is in Chicago, it will be delivered fairly quickly. In this case, he wrote on March 28, and the V-Mail was postmarked in Chicago as April 8th.\r\n <\/div>\r\n <\/div>\n

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\r\n 417th NFS War Diary: MAR. 28. THE SQUADRON WENT OFF OPERATIONS THIS MORNING FOR AN INDEFINITE PERIOD FOR THE PURPOSE OF CARRYING ON A CONVERSION PROGRAM FROM THE BEAUFIGHTER TYPE A\/C TO THE P-61.\r\n <\/div>\r\n <\/div>Wed. night 3\/28\/45
\nSouthern France.<\/p>\n
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March 28, 1945, Southern France<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Dear Folks –<\/p>\n

I thought V-mail<\/a> would get to you pretty fast as Chicago has one of the photographing labs. I’ll mail this in the morning so you might let me know when you receive it.<\/p>\n

Andy and the other two boys are asleep but you know the Cartmells when it comes to going to bed. The electric lights went out some time ago but a couple of candles are OK to write by. I slept a great deal today so am not very tired tonight.<\/p>\n

There isn’t much to write about other than to let you know everything is OK. Received a couple of letters from Zoe today that she had written on the 5th and 16th. She had planned on writing you folks around the first of April but now that Ruth<\/a> is still at home she might wait till she leaves. Wish we could all spend Easter together but guess we’ll have to take a rain check on that till next year. What news we get over here all sounds good so it might not be too long. Cleda, hope the meat shortage there isn’t giving you too much trouble. What I wouldn’t give for a couple gals. of ice cold milk. Goodnight –<\/p>\n

Love,<\/p>\n

Tom<\/p>\n

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Wed. night 3\/28\/45 Southern France. Dear Folks – I thought V-mail would get to you pretty fast as Chicago has one of the photographing labs. I’ll mail this in the morning so you might let me know when you receive it. Andy and the other two boys are asleep but you know the Cartmells when … Continue reading March 28, 1945, Southern France<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":1700,"menu_order":8790,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4436","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\/4436","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=4436"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/cartmell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4436\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4646,"href":"https:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/cartmell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4436\/revisions\/4646"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/cartmell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1700"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/cartmell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/cartmell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/cartmell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}