Lt. (j.g.) Gilbert
Steingart
U.S.S. Ocelot, FPO San
Francisco
Wednesday 24 January
1945, 9:45 PM
Dearest Eleanor,
Hello
darling, how are you tonight?. I'm swell
but I miss you terribly and there is nothing either of us can do about it.
Today began
as usual with work. And after sweating
all morning I decided it was time for a little recreation so I joined a few of
the officers who were going ashore. We
had a few beers and spent most of the afternoon hunting shells. My collection has many variety, sizes, shapes
and colors of shells. We returned to the
ship at 5:00 PM.
Our new
engineering officer reported aboard this afternoon and seems to be a nice
chap. He got a tough break though. His last duty was about 150 miles from here. However he flew from there back to Pearl and
then back here. Flying about 3600 miles
just to cover 150 miles is going some isn't it?
We just
closed a deal to buy 350 cases of coca cola for the officers mess and will pick
them up tomorrow. Including cases and
bottles they'll cost us .053 cents per bottle and that is dirt cheap.
The mail man
only brought me a birthday card from my mother this morning but when I got back
from the island I found a most welcome letter from you. It was dated the 14th but from what you say I
guess there are ones from the 13th and 14th still due. You see the last letter of the 13th mentioned
a package you received from me but didn't open because you wanted to get the
kids to bed. No further mention is made
in today's letter so there must be one or two in between. I'll receive them one
of these days.
The movie tonight
consisted of 5 shorts and a Bing Crosby picture entitled "My Girl Like
Music" but it was just fair.
Now to your
letter. You seem to be seeing movies the
same time we are. Just the other night we
had "Bowery to Broadway" just the other night. A funny thing I
remarked at the end of the show that what was lacking was color. All great (?) minds run in the same channels.
So Ruth broke
down and called you. Well I guess she
took to heart the letter I wrote her before she went East. Well, we'll see later if she really meant it.
It didn't
take Mary and Willie to get over their spat.
After all these years, she should be used to her trouble.
I know you
miss me Sweet because I know how I feel.
Just the same I tickled pink that you are all dated up. I do hope you get lots of pleasure out of
your outings.
Darling, do
you remember the night you kissed me for the first time? We were parked in the alley and you gave me a
peck and ran like h---. Bet you were
afraid I'd rape you. Well you'll never
be able to run fast enough when I get back.
No more for
now honey so good night and dream about me.
I'm going to do the same about you.
Love
Gil
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