21 September, 2019
September 21, 1941 Dear Pauline
U. S. S. Cuyama (A0 3)
Aboard Ship
Dear Pauline,
Received your sweet letter, I sure will be glad when you are out here.
I will let you know our schedule before leaving here.I don’t think now it will be until December until we get back then we will get some time in port. We will have some definite information the last of the week our schedule has been changed to our disappointment. You can make your plans for your transfer in December. I want you to have some time off with me so we can go places. Sweet. I hope you wont be disappointed at their late time, you are going to be my sweet wife if you just have patience with me and I know you will.
I am mailing you a small package tomorrow, some things I got you in Honolulu and Tuesday I will mail you the wrist watch it is a "Balova" $39.50 I was going to give it to you when you were here before.
You and I are going to be happy together and we will have some fun with our friends, Mother told me you go to the same church she goes to.
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Say. Woody and Pauline sure do kid me, wait until we married & we will kid them too.
Honey I want us to be happy so you can tell your folks and friends. And I will try & get some time off next summer so we can go back to Nashville & meet your folks.
Say. How many sisters & brothers do you have? I have one sister "May Russell" at Lyle, Brother Henry "The Navy", Russell "Nashville", "Woody" & "Day" at "Turlock" California. Mother is at Day's now, His two boys Billy 9 & Johnnie 7 has the typhoid fever, in the hospital.
I wrote to Russel & Bessie at 1516-9 ave N Nashville Tenn to go around & see you. They are very religious he works in the carpenter trade.
Say. Write me something about your sister & brothers and their name and your little nephews & nieces & their names: I like children.
By by for this true
Abb.
P.S. Write me sweetheart. I will be looking for a letter the last go the week.
September 19, 1941 German capture of Kiev is now formal. The Red Army forces have suffered many casualties in defending this chief city in Soviet Ukraine.
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Back: Jim Hogan & Lula, Estes, Bill Bird, Clabe Luckett, Mark Moore, Bud Hassell, Uncle Dave
Front: Abb Truett, Ed Truett, Sallie Truett, May Truett (in lap),Caroline Truett, Henry Truett.
Pauline's Letters:
- April 1917
Click to Keep Reading ...An excerpt from “The Life Story of a lucky Tennessee Sailor that Lived to Retire” by Abb R. Truett:
November, 1940, I was called by the Navy for ... - June 3rd, 1940 Dear Mae
Click to Keep Reading ...Dear Mae, Read your letter this morning, sure was glad to hear from you. I am having a good time but not as good as I had last ...
- November 1940
Click to Keep Reading ...An excerpt from “The Life Story of a lucky Tennessee Sailor that Lived to Retire” by Abb R. Truett:
November, 1940, as we came up from the south ... - July 5th, 1941 Dear Pauline
Click to Keep Reading ...Gee jack I wish I had more time off while you are out here, so I could be with you more.
- August 12, 1941 Dear Pauline
Click to Keep Reading ...Sam’s Birthday is September 15 that will be the code for the date we will arrive in San Diego or any name stating date so you understand ...
- August 15, 1941 Dear Pauline
Click to Keep Reading ...I haven’t heard from you since my last 2 letters. You probable haven’t recovered from the shock. As soon as you get your breath I will be looking ...
- August 17, 1941 To my Dear Future Sweet Wife
Click to Keep Reading ...I received your letter today as we will be sailing early in the morning for Honolulu. I will tell you how glad I am when you said “yes”. ...
- September 10, 1941 Dear Pauline
Click to Keep Reading ...I will get some time off for Christmas. I told Lieut Lett confidential about us but it was too good to keep secret so all the Naval Officers ...
- September 18, 1941 Dearest Abb
Click to Keep Reading ...Received your letter yesterday, Honey. I sure was glad to hear from your, I missed your letters so much. Just counting the days until I see you again.
- September 21, 1941 Dear Pauline
Click to Keep Reading ...I have 1 sister May Russell at Lyle, Brother Henry “The Navy”, Russell, Woody & Day at Turlock Ca. Mother is at Day’s now, His two boys Billy ...
- September 24, 1941 Hello Darling
Click to Keep Reading ...Honey I will try to make you a good wife so we will be happy. Of course we don’t know each others disposition. I will try to be ...
- September, 29 1941 Dear Abb
Click to Keep Reading ...I received the package Sat. I was excited as a child on Christmas morning, they were lovely. I like to wear beads. And they are so odd. I ...
- September, 29 1941 Dear Pauline
Click to Keep Reading ...It will be just like going to heaven when we come in to home port and I can see you. We will never let our honeymoon end honey.
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