{"id":4700,"date":"2019-04-19T11:18:06","date_gmt":"2019-04-19T16:18:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/cartmell\/?page_id=4700"},"modified":"2019-05-02T14:02:19","modified_gmt":"2019-05-02T19:02:19","slug":"april-17-1945-northern-france-tuesday-afternoon","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/cartmell\/letters\/417th-night-fighter-squadron-march-1945\/april-17-1945-northern-france-tuesday-afternoon\/","title":{"rendered":"April 17, 1945, Northern France, Tuesday Afternoon"},"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&#8217;s friend, Mort Blaisdell visited, and they practiced shooting their .45 pistols. Then they celebrated by drinking a bottle of warm champagne. \r\n                            <\/div>\r\n                        <\/div>Tues. afternoon 17 April 45.<br \/>\n&#8220;Northern France&#8221;<br \/>\nAPO #374<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_4710\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4710\" style=\"width: 150px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/cartmell\/wp-content\/uploads\/April-17-1945-Tuesday-Afternoon-Page-1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-4710\" src=\"https:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/cartmell\/wp-content\/uploads\/April-17-1945-Tuesday-Afternoon-Page-1-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"April 17, 1945, Tuesday Afternoon, Page 1\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" title=\"\"><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4710\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">April 17, 1945, Tuesday Afternoon, Page 1<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Hello Darling &#8211;<\/p>\n<p>I wanted to let you know that my APO no. has been changed. Now maybe our mail will come alittle faster, at least it should. I wrote you last night about our trip to Paris and not much has happened since then. However, <a href=\"https:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/cartmell\/people\/mort-and-laurale-blaisdell\/\">Mort B<\/a>. came over for awhile this afternoon and we went out and practiced up alittle with our .45&#8217;s When we came back to the tent we opened up a bottle of champagne for old times. It would have tasted better alittle cooler as it is really pretty warm this afternoon. Most of the boys are sun bathing (what a way to win a war) (It is alittle different at night).<\/p>\n<p>Hon this is just a not, I want to write the folks in Chicago. We have supper pretty early, everytime I sit down to evening mess I think it is about time that you are getting up.<\/p>\n<p>I had to take alittle time out to check the mail, the first for 3 days and all it was was boxes and papers, no letters so our tent didn&#8217;t get a thing.<\/p>\n<p>Enough for now &#8211; be good Darling &#8211; I love you &#8211;<\/p>\n<p>Forever,<\/p>\n<p>Tom<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_4711\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4711\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/cartmell\/wp-content\/uploads\/April-17-1945-Tuesday-Afternoon.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-4711\" src=\"https:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/cartmell\/wp-content\/uploads\/April-17-1945-Tuesday-Afternoon-300x174.jpg\" alt=\"April 17, 1945, Tuesday Afternoon\" width=\"300\" height=\"174\" title=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/cartmell\/wp-content\/uploads\/April-17-1945-Tuesday-Afternoon-300x174.jpg 300w, https:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/cartmell\/wp-content\/uploads\/April-17-1945-Tuesday-Afternoon.jpg 648w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4711\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">April 17, 1945, Tuesday Afternoon<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tues. afternoon 17 April 45. &#8220;Northern France&#8221; APO #374 Hello Darling &#8211; I wanted to let you know that my APO no. has been changed. Now maybe our mail will come alittle faster, at least it should. I wrote you last night about our trip to Paris and not much has happened since then. However, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/cartmell\/letters\/417th-night-fighter-squadron-march-1945\/april-17-1945-northern-france-tuesday-afternoon\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">April 17, 1945, Northern France, Tuesday Afternoon<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":1700,"menu_order":8859,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4700","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","category-from-tom-cartmell-to-zoe-foran"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/cartmell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4700","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=4700"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/cartmell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4700\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4712,"href":"https:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/cartmell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4700\/revisions\/4712"}],"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=4700"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/cartmell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4700"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/cartmell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4700"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}