U.S.S. OCELOT
(IX-110)
c/o Fleet Post Office
San Francisco,
California
Wednesday 3 October
1945, 1:30 AM
Dearest Eleanor,
Hello Darling
here I am again and a little late or should I say early in the morning. Well you see it was this way. Roger Kirk, who has been waiting for his
relief for two months now, had a couple of fliers visit him. They are staying aboard. We've all been
sitting up having a few drinks and just visiting. When I get ashore one of them
has promised to get a jeep and show me Okinawa. I'll take a rain check on his
promise.
I did have a
few appointments this morning but it didn't take me long to clean up for the
day. The rest of the time went like
yesterday and the day before.
I finished "Mr. Winkle Goes to War." I am almost through with "Young Man with a Horn" a story about a talented trumpet player. I am enjoying the book a lot and think you'd like it too. The author is Dorothy Baker.
Tonight's movie was "Blood on the Sun" with James Cagney and Sylvia Sidney. It was a good movie though some of the sequences weren't quite convincing.
No mail at
all today so I'm hoping for a jackpot tomorrow.
The wind shifted and it's really cool tonight. In fact we broke out blankets. I think I'll use mine tonight.
Nothing new
about when we leave or when you can expect me.
I bet I'm just as anxious about it all as you are.
That is
thirty for tonight Sweet so "nite-nite" and pleasant dreams.
Love,
Gil
Newspaper article from the Santa Monica Evening Outlook
The nightly movie
