LETTER #43 - 24 OCT 1944

                                                                
My Little Notes:  Not much to really add.  He talks about hitchhiking to Miami and that even the officers hitchhike their way around.  He also mentions he received a letter from his Army buddy, Ray Kubick who is still at Truax Field in Madison, Wisconsin but soon will ship to Chanute Field.  He also talks about the trouble getting laundry done down in the South and how expensive like spending $4-5 a month to send them out to get clean!

"War bonds are nest eggs that hatch dreams like this [washing machine] -- WWII advertisement (USA), 1943."

 

 

The closest I could find to a laundry image! 

LETTER #42 - 20 OCT 1944

Boca Raton Army Air Field

My Little Notes:
Well another place for training!   According to a website, The Boca Raton Army Air Field (BRAAF) was the key site during WWII for Airborne Radar research, development, testing & training.  Between 1942 and 1947 over 100,000 troops were stationed at this extremely Top Secret Army Air Force Field in the then small town of Boca Raton, FL.  In 2005 a very interesting book was written about this place called "Small Town, Big Secrets" by Sally J. Ling.  Also, German Uboats were spotted around this area to sink our ships with supplies.  The Germans sank 24 ships in Florida waters during the war, eight of them off Palm Beach County between February and May of 1942.  Here is a link on this information:  the-enemy-presence-german-u-boats.  

Here is also an interesting link on the history on the Air Field:  us-military-in-boca-raton

One more link on the book Small Town, Big Secrets-inside-the-boca-raton-army-air-field-during-world-war by Sally J. Ling.  More photos and history on the website.



Also, Uncle Louie was not kidding when he said he just missed the hurricane!  This was an unnamed one in 1944, but nonetheless left its mark in weather history!

Link to the description of the hurricane, Oct. 18-20, 1944:
Unnamed Hurricane, October 1944