Love Letters in the South Pacific – A Boatload of WW2 Army Nurses
Happy Love Letters Valentine’s Day America!
If a picture’s worth a 1000 words
This love’s for you. It will endure.
Morris took quite a few snapshots when he was deployed in the South Pacific during WW2.
I recently got into his photo scrapbook. Quite a few amazing pics. Here’s a peek.
Morris Densmore and crew S. Pacific WW2
Some things must never change. WW2 pin up art is one of them.
Insignia of LCT 753 & friend
Nurses looking like Rosie the Riveter arrive as a boat load.
Your load of army nurses finally arrives!
God bless America! Will post more soon.
Love,
Martha D.
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68 Years Ago on Martin Luther King Day
~Love Letter of WWII, January 21, 1945, and about General MacArthur…
Love Letter of WW2 January 21st 1945
68 years ago from this Martin Luther King Day my father, Morris, wrote about a mountain in a love letter to my mother, Arline:
“This is a rainy Sunday morning in New Guinea and I have a nostalgia complex so I guess I’ll talk to you for a while. A couple days ago I took a ride inland…Away up on top of one of the mountains we saw General MacArthur’s home. It is a modern palace in a tropical jungle. I guess it is something like this that doesn’t put him in such high favor with many of the men in mud out here.”
I walk my dog. I contemplate the letter. I connect with my father, across time, across place.
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