{"id":923,"date":"2017-12-17T12:50:22","date_gmt":"2017-12-17T12:50:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/cartmell\/?page_id=923"},"modified":"2018-10-02T16:59:48","modified_gmt":"2018-10-02T16:59:48","slug":"51-december-8-1943-lemoore-california","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/cartmell\/letters\/basic-flight-training-december-1943\/51-december-8-1943-lemoore-california\/","title":{"rendered":"December 8, 1943, Lemoore, California"},"content":{"rendered":"<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 arrives at the Lemoore Army Air Field for his Basic Flight Training. He hopes to get some air time flying <a href=\"https:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/cartmell\/things\/at-17-bobcat\/\">AT 17&#8242;<\/a>s and <a href=\"https:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/cartmell\/things\/vultee-bt-15-valiant\/\">BT<\/a>&#8216;s.\r\n                            <\/div>\r\n                        <\/div>\n<figure id=\"attachment_926\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-926\" style=\"width: 150px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/cartmell\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/December-8-1943-Page-1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-926 size-thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/cartmell\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/December-8-1943-Page-1-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"December 8, 1943, Page 1\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" title=\"\"><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-926\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">December 8, 1943, Page 1<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Mon. night.<\/p>\n<p>Hello,<\/p>\n<p>Just a note to let you know my address. After tonight when we move into our permanent quarters here there will be a box number added to it but this will work. As you can see the <a href=\"http:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/cartmell\/places\/marana-army-air-field\/\">Marana<\/a> deal didn&#8217;t go through but this is a twin motored basic school and we might get some time in some <a href=\"http:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/cartmell\/things\/at-17-bobcat\/\">AT 17&#8217;s<\/a> as well as the <a href=\"http:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/cartmell\/things\/vultee-bt-15-valiant\/\">BTs<\/a>&#8216; while here.<\/p>\n<p>We have to move into our regular squadrons tonight so will have to close. We&#8217;ll let you know everything later, have had a plenty busy day today. Arrived here 6:00 this morning.<\/p>\n<p>Give Karen a kiss for me.<\/p>\n<p>With love,<\/p>\n<p>Tom<\/p>\n<p>This is the Lemoore Army Air Base.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_927\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-927\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/cartmell\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/December-8-1943-Lemoore-California.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-927 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/cartmell\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/December-8-1943-Lemoore-California-300x162.jpg\" alt=\"December 8, 1943, Lemoore, California\" width=\"300\" height=\"162\" title=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/cartmell\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/December-8-1943-Lemoore-California-300x162.jpg 300w, https:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/cartmell\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/December-8-1943-Lemoore-California.jpg 648w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-927\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">December 8, 1943, Lemoore, California<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mon. night. Hello, Just a note to let you know my address. After tonight when we move into our permanent quarters here there will be a box number added to it but this will work. As you can see the Marana deal didn&#8217;t go through but this is a twin motored basic school and we &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/cartmell\/letters\/basic-flight-training-december-1943\/51-december-8-1943-lemoore-california\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">December 8, 1943, Lemoore, California<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":1686,"menu_order":5100,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-923","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","category-tom-cartmell-to-elaine-and-stanley-hughey"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/cartmell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/923","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=923"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/cartmell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/923\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3226,"href":"https:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/cartmell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/923\/revisions\/3226"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/cartmell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1686"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/cartmell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=923"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/cartmell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=923"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/cartmell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=923"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}