2 Sep 1945 WW2 USS Chenango CVE 28 Letter About End of the War - Naval Censor

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2 Sep 1945 WW2 USS Chenango CVE 28 Letter About End of the War - Naval Censor:
$12.50

Up for sale is a letter from September 2 1945, addressed from the USS Chenango CVE 28. The letter was written the day of Japan\'s surrender at the end of WW2, a month before their ship began a magic carpet service back to the United States, while they were waiting around to make sure the Japanese army wasn\'t going to try anything else. The navy was still censoring ships\' mail at the time so it is only postmarked US NAVY with no date and is stamped Passed by Naval Censor. It is in very good condition for its age because it was kept in a acid free correspondence box for most of the last 7 decades. The letter reads:
Sunday 2 Sept 45In Port!Dear Patty: Guess you haven\'t heard from me for sometime now. Reason: I haven\'t written. Well, I\'ve been a complete lazy Joe who hasn\'t even written his little mom in the last two months. I get those no-write spells every now and then, but I\'m off again for a long time; no stand by for plenty of \"bull.\" I got your Aug 5 letter yesterday and it was very encouraging and delightful. However... However I did not get a picture (snapshot) or even mention of some. Now get on the ball! Say, just what kind of life are you leading anyway? It sounds great. Too bad you have to work in between drinks. Can\'t wait to get back and get in on the deal. Oh, yes, I\'ll ring your telephone before I come over, so you can get your money\'s worth out of it. In our confusion around here the war came to a screeching halt. Much to my surprise. But... that\'s what we\'ve been waiting for; it did come a little (quite a little) sooner than we expected. Now that the unbelievable has happened we sit around stretching our points trying to get out. After looking the situation over I\'m stuck from eight to eighteen months; that will be my \"the\"-day. However, we are looking forward to a little stateside leave in the next couple of months. We\'d like to see Tokyo before going back but doesn\'t look likely. The big Joes are probably figuring out right now just where who\'ll go and when. We are waiting. The good ship Chenango has been around since Okinawa. We went to Leyte from there for a couple of months. We had liberty (that I told you about) at a beach next to the native village of San Antonio! Was I mortified). It was pretty nice. It was during those months that we spent a week chipping paint... something I\'ll never do in civilian life. You chip it off with a dull metal bar, wire brush the surface, paint it. In two days it is ready to do over again. It even think of it fills me with indignation. It was about that time that you no doubt heard of the Third Fleet\'s raid on Tokyo. Not long after that we did a little three week convoy duty off honorable Japan homeland (time I started my \"no-write\" campaign). But the Japs were pretty well shot about then, so with not so honorable atomic bombs it all ended. That pretty well brings us up-to-date. While here I\'ve had one liberty. Can\'t say much, but what I did see was rather interesting. The place was fresh from war, so there were restricted area. Even the area we were in wasn\'t too safe... booby-traps, unexploded bombs, etc. etc. I\'ll tell you all about it when I get home. Oh, yes, I did have a can of cold beer, and two of hot beer. Looks like I\'ll be going back to college when I get home. This time I\'m sweating out architecture which means three or four more years work. Haven\'t decided on the school... probably go to Texas U. at Austin; maybe I\'ll give Rice another try (but I doubt that). You mentioned seeing Hank. Good! Undoubtedly he was with the little woman shopping. The uniform was that of an N.R.O.T.C. cadet. Sorta likeAnnapolis only not as classy... In other words he is taking Navy courses along with his regular courses, and he won\'t go to Midshipman\'s School. The stuff like he and I were in at first has been discontinued; it is all NROTC now. Understand? Scoop!! Our boy Mr. Curtis Eugene Boswell, Skinnay to you, is now big civilian back in Kingsville making money with an engineering company. He expects to get his degree at Rice, so maybe you\'ll see him again someday soon. Well, sugah, I\'ve run out like a can of hot beer, so until I put a head on it goodnight. Keep a look out for record players etc. According to reliable sources it\'s going your way. Tell all the ladies \"hello.\"All my love,Dyke(Leonard Dyke)

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