May 15, 1945
Dear Folks,
Well, I got back O.K. Sat. A.M. and got settled in the old routine. As yet I am still not assigned to anything definite, but ma by any day now.
I went to Fall River, Mass. on liberty last nite on liberty and had a pretty good time. Its about 16 miles from Newport and takes about 45 minutes by bus. As it stands now, I should rate the weekend, but nothing is positive up here, so don't count on it too much
I still haven't heard any definite dope on what happened to the "Witter" but on the train coming up here I talked to a couple of "Waves" who worked in the Bureau of Personell in Washington. They told me that they had received several casualty reports from her but didn't know anything. I am going to write to a couple of shipmates on the "witter" and see if they can tell me anything.
Thats about all for now, so I hope to see you this week-end but as I said before don't count on it.
With all my love,
Paul
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Taken at Great Lakes Naval Training Station on July 25, 1943
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 United States License.
These are my brother's letters home from the U.S. Navy during WW II, written in 1943-1946 (when he was 17-20). I decided to copy his typos and misspellings as he wrote them. Entries from his ship's log are inserted for the dates between his letters. Blogger won't let me date the posts as if they were published in the 1940's, so please subtract 30 years from the "publication date" you see above each post.
Paul H. Kleinman, 1926-2007
Taken at Great Lakes Naval Training Station on July 25, 1943
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