[Letter from Cornelia Yerkes to Frances Yerkes, September 4, 1945] Page: 1 of 2
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FORM 2247
* AMERICAN RED CROSS
nday ... fine way to celebrate the signing of the peace ... helen, by the way, found
stray chest of drawers that one of the girls had had built by the c be, and had left
e went to tinian or siapan ... so i'm all set up, and you don't have to worry about m:
gar being under the bed ... in fact we are very comfortable, down to three to a room,
.ybe so e day months from now, my locker will arrive ... i got s:art on the last :nove(
ever, and brought almost everything i need ... if you want to send me something, ni l
rfu'ne (in solid forml, preferably tailspin), silk panties size six or seven, and tanpax
o,.es 40 to a box) ... i can live forever without these comodities, but if you get an ure
a send so:m-ething, they would be fine ... i also want a copy of guadacanal diary, but that
only a whim ... i want to get buz to inscribe it for me as he is one of the charactes...
you Might try, if you can get it, to ship air mail ...i also wish you'd shove the zilama
you can without hurting anyone's feelings ... i feel sure dick is collecting the rent
om the bea c ... aso, jwtb in passing, if you or daddy should ever get sicx, do not rxiL
let me know, as i can get an emergency leave ... i know you always keep all bad n-:s fr'.:
thering me, but don't in such a case ... we are certainly having a time getting our club
ping ... the army took two days holiday, and i think we were the only people working on
_e field, although there is actually very little we can do until they get further along
ie building ... buz took me to marine headquarters for dinner v-j day, and as usual i wy'
e only female in the officer's club ... we had steaks (RARE, which is rare indeed) and
LSSH corn on the cob ... today we went to the officer's mess for lunch and waiting for :.
:es the husband of ruth lindley, who was in marion's class, and lived next door to me at
allas ... she has just had a new daughter, and cliff(who was one of our instrucots at
school, and is now flying 29s) and i had a fine time discussing old times and our
mutual friends ... ruth is in st pete, his last station being mcdill ... it's raining as
usual, and the tin roof : lakes it sound good ... we have no idea where we will go next, or
we'll go anywhere ... the air is full of ru:;ors ... i've been saying i wanted japan cr
ina, but helen told me yesterday that japan was going to be a barbed wire enclosure i L
berty from 1800 to 0600, and i'd go mad with that kind of a set up... personally i think
at's a lot of foolishness ... there are no club -obiles on this rock, and i con't believe
-ere will be other places forward from here ... i hope later to get some canteen work, as
stil much prefer that to club work ... dottie has put me in charge of our snack bar, but
the army and red cross are both resisting serving food, it will probably be coffee, ju-,
.. phylis is still reporting in daily, but not moving in this direction at all ... if she
on't get on the road soon, she'll probably get to okinawa instead of here ... i'm awful
eepy, and there's not too much ' .., -.
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Kafka, Cornelia V. Yerkes. [Letter from Cornelia Yerkes to Frances Yerkes, September 4, 1945], letter, September 4, 1945; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1296903/m1/1/: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting National WASP WWII Museum.