Letter from Warren Johnston to Bobby [Letter 407]

Letter from Warren Johnston to Bobby [Letter 407]

353 Saturday 27 Oct 1945 7:20 am My dearest darling Last night, after getting a telephone message from Rein, I went down to see him at Base 19, brought him back here to dinner after a stiff double scotch at his officers’ club bar. He has his orders, is waiting only for his relief to come down from Okinawa; expects to leave by plane within 3 or 4 days. Incidentally, I had not yet mailed that package with the two air medals in it; so I took them out and turned them over to him (one for Dickie and one for Bobby Benson.) I read him the part of letter 434 which I found on my table when we came in (he'll be able to describe our living quarters) and he was amused at your directives: ‘demobilize the island - charter a battleship - do anything - but get home…Sweetie darling, when I discount my chances I don't do so to deflate you, honestly - I want you to feel good about everything that develops, or rather I want those things to develop which you'll feel good about, always - of course it won't invariably turn out that way -[?] maybe it will, I don't know! I love you darling Warren

1945-10-27

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