Shanghai, China,
March 7, 1946
Dear Folks,
Well, we finally got off the "Samar" just before she got underway for Tsingtao, a couple of hundred miles up the coast. We are now aboard the receiving ship "Orvetta," awaiting transportation. we have hopes of getting aboard the Navy transport "La Salle" which is due to get underway around the 12th, arriving on the west coast some time the end of March. So far we have heard nothing definite, just a host of scuttlebutt rumors which charactarize receiving ships and stations the world over.
I got your second package of film just before we left the "Samar," so I should be able to get plenty of snaps on the way back.
So I may still make it yet in time for this years "Seder." In any case, it will be a nice time to be getting home, just as spring is starting too bloom. I will probably have a heck of a time trying to buy a suit, as everyone will be buying their new easter outfits around then.
That's about all, so, if you don't here from me again before, stand by for a phone call the end of this month.
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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