: Frank A. White
: Letters of Love, War and Jazz
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: 20. Jahrhundert (bis 1945)
: English
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This intimate story of a young couple's experiences during World War II, told through their nearly daily correspondence between the war-torn Pacific islands and the home front in Los Angeles, unfolds as an almost unfailingly candid, vividly detailed, distinctly vibrant and often humorous chronical not only of their daily lives, but of their hopes and dreams, frustrations and fears, and emotional highs and lows. It is also an evocative portrait of the times and places in which they lived and worked and of the events that shaped the period, providing a very personal perspective on this critical time in our nation's and the world's history.

CHAPTER ONE:
 Becoming a Navy Ensign

From Indianapolis to SanFrancisco

(via Camp Peary, Virginia, Crane Depot, Indiana,
and Cambridge,Massachusetts)

June 15, 1944—April 12,1945

Part 1—Indianapolis to Crane Depot:

June 15, 1944—July 26, 1944

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Frank to Bee

June 15, 1944

I’ve been sworn in now, but we’re staying in Indianapolis until 3:30 p.m. tomorrow. We’repretty sure of going to Great Lakes, but it’s not absolutely positive, I guess.

Staying at the Y; took a shower after waiting in lines for 2 and a half hours to be sworn in—feel much better now. Going to eat breakfast tomorrow at Wheeler’s—decided I wouldn’t have many more chances to eat what and where I choose.

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Frank to Bee

June 18, 1944

Well, as I told you, our original orders were for Great Lakes Naval Base north of Chicago, but 70 of us got shipped here [to Camp Peary, Virginia]5 from Indianapolis instead. Now we’re here among a bunch of hillbillies from all around the South—Alabama, Georgia, Tennessee, etc. Left Indy Friday night around 7—fast trip to Cincy, slow ride the rest of the way through West Virginia. Arrived here about 3:30 p.m. yesterday—passed the time on the trip down playing poker, blackjack and shooting craps