{"id":3311,"date":"2014-01-21T12:00:01","date_gmt":"2014-01-21T01:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wepidgeon.com\/pidgeonpost\/?p=3311"},"modified":"2014-03-13T13:25:06","modified_gmt":"2014-03-13T02:25:06","slug":"war-letters-morotai-21-jan-1945-hollandia-in-transit-at-a-us-air-force-camp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wepidgeon.com\/pidgeonpost\/?p=3311","title":{"rendered":"War Letters &#8211; Morotai: 21 Jan 1945, Hollandia; In transit at a US Air Force Camp"},"content":{"rendered":"<h6>Hollandia<\/h6>\n<h6>Sunday 21<sup>st<\/sup> Jan [1945]<\/h6>\n<h6>6 am<\/h6>\n<p>Darling,<\/p>\n<p>Just a short note asking you to do something for me.\u00a0 I forgot about it when writing yesterday.\u00a0 You will have found an illustration in the hall \u2013 will you ring Jack Santry and ask him if he would be good enough to take it in to Miss Mellion in the office?\u00a0 I couldn\u2019t manage it on my last trip in.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3490\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3490\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/wepidgeon\/11159963405\/in\/set-72157629507425181\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-3490\" alt=\"Interior, Transport Plane Evacuating Wounded\" src=\"http:\/\/wepidgeon.com\/pidgeonpost\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Interior-Transport-Plane-Evacuating-Wounded.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"442\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wepidgeon.com\/pidgeonpost\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Interior-Transport-Plane-Evacuating-Wounded.jpg 600w, https:\/\/wepidgeon.com\/pidgeonpost\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Interior-Transport-Plane-Evacuating-Wounded-300x221.jpg 300w, https:\/\/wepidgeon.com\/pidgeonpost\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Interior-Transport-Plane-Evacuating-Wounded-407x300.jpg 407w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3490\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Interior, Transport Plane Evacuating Wounded<br \/>Awarded First Prize, Australia At War Exhibition, War<br \/>in the Air Section 1944-45<br \/>The plane is a Hudson bomber.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Also on the verandah is a painting of wounded in a plane interior \u2013 you know, the very green thing. \u00a0I think it is leaning against the cupboard out on the verandah.\u00a0 Will you send me up the size in inches of the original \u2013 and also ask Jack Santry to take it into Ron Bennett whom I shall write respecting it?\u00a0 How are you getting along without me to worry you?\u00a0 I do hope you and the little man are doing well &amp; eating all you should.\u00a0 We are leaving early this morning for an island further along the coast.\u00a0 Should get there about 3 hours after we leave.\u00a0 This American camp is a huge place.\u00a0 Thousands of Yanks swarm the hills.\u00a0 They\u2019ve even got between 100 &amp; 200 service women with them.\u00a0 I dare say that dame Staunton who came home is somewhere about.\u00a0 French letters &amp; prophylastic (sic) stations abound.<\/p>\n<p>It is very quiet at the moment \u2013 no one up in the PR camp \u2013 no sound of birds in the jungle just beside the hill.\u00a0 The silence is broken only by the roaring farting of the jeeps grinding up the hill on the right.\u00a0 We eat at an officers mess about a mile &amp; a half up the mountain which overlooks a magnificent lake curving round the foothills for miles upon miles.\u00a0 It really is a beautiful spot.\u00a0 That is more than you can say for the food.\u00a0 Christ the Americans are sweet toothed eaters!\u00a0 Expensive too \u2013 and little enough of it.\u00a0 Jack Hickson gets around in a start of chronic hunger pain. 1\/- for a breakfast of a sweet kind of egg bread soaked in syrup.\u00a0 Coffee of course.\u00a0 3\/6 for lunch consisting of an indifferent vegetable ball covered with a thin sauce, slice of beetroot &amp; frizzled dehydrated potatoes. No coffee but water with lemon, and flat cakes.\u00a0 Dinner was a salad of pears &amp; peaches with a near horse radish sauce \u2013 then tomatoe soup \u2013 roast beef &amp; a slawish sort of cabbage &amp; a substance which none could identify &amp; none could eat \u2013 all topped off with a slopingly sweet chocolate pie.\u00a0 Humm-mm!<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3494\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3494\" style=\"width: 378px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/wepidgeon\/8890290343\/in\/set-72157633808618581\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3494\" alt=\"War Correspondnet Jack Hickson taking shelter from the rain at H\" src=\"http:\/\/wepidgeon.com\/pidgeonpost\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/3-New-Guinea-and-Morotai-2-Hollandia-3.jpg\" width=\"378\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wepidgeon.com\/pidgeonpost\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/3-New-Guinea-and-Morotai-2-Hollandia-3.jpg 378w, https:\/\/wepidgeon.com\/pidgeonpost\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/3-New-Guinea-and-Morotai-2-Hollandia-3-189x300.jpg 189w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 378px) 100vw, 378px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3494\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">War Correspondent Jack Hickson taking shelter from the rain at Hollandia airfield.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3495\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3495\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/wepidgeon\/8890288721\/in\/set-72157633808618581\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-3495\" alt=\"US Army Douglas C47 transport planes at what is believed to be H\" src=\"http:\/\/wepidgeon.com\/pidgeonpost\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/3-New-Guinea-and-Morotai-2-Hollandia-2.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"373\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wepidgeon.com\/pidgeonpost\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/3-New-Guinea-and-Morotai-2-Hollandia-2.jpg 600w, https:\/\/wepidgeon.com\/pidgeonpost\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/3-New-Guinea-and-Morotai-2-Hollandia-2-300x186.jpg 300w, https:\/\/wepidgeon.com\/pidgeonpost\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/3-New-Guinea-and-Morotai-2-Hollandia-2-482x300.jpg 482w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3495\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">US Army Douglas C47 transport planes at what is believed to be Hollandia airfield. The plane in foreground has serial number 100726.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3497\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3497\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/wepidgeon\/11166188045\/in\/set-72157633808618581\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-3497\" alt=\"21 x 11 cm\" src=\"http:\/\/wepidgeon.com\/pidgeonpost\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/3-New-Guinea-and-Morotai-2-Hollandia-5.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"325\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wepidgeon.com\/pidgeonpost\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/3-New-Guinea-and-Morotai-2-Hollandia-5.jpg 600w, https:\/\/wepidgeon.com\/pidgeonpost\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/3-New-Guinea-and-Morotai-2-Hollandia-5-300x162.jpg 300w, https:\/\/wepidgeon.com\/pidgeonpost\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/3-New-Guinea-and-Morotai-2-Hollandia-5-500x270.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3497\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">US Army Douglas C47 transport plane<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>It has just started to rain but I don\u2019t think it will amount to much \u2013 the mountain this foothill is part of runs to 5800 ft &amp; has been shrouded by clouds ever since our arrival so I guess one can expect a certain dampness to be our lot..<\/p>\n<p>The boys are alright but I\u2019d still prefer to be alone I think.\u00a0 However we shall see what we shall see.\u00a0 Haven\u2019t done any work yet as we haven\u2019t contacted RAAF stations.\u00a0 Will be staying with one today.\u00a0 Somewhere in the Schoeten Islands just off NG.<\/p>\n<p>After being very short on cigarettes all yesterday &amp; being unable to buy any off the yanks we managed to get a dozen cartons off an Australian canteen.\u00a0 Whacko!\u00a0 12 Guilders for the dozen! 1 Guilder is 3\/4 to you mug \u2013 of course we intrepid newsmen are in Dutch Territory &amp; now shiny guilders about where pounds fluttered before.<\/p>\n<p>Lots of love sweetheart.\u00a0 A big squiggle &amp; tickle for little wep &amp; regards to mum.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ll be seeing you.<\/p>\n<p>Dear Willie.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/wepidgeon\/13117754894\/in\/set-72157633808772968\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-3728\" alt=\"1 Guilder note sent by Wep to Jess in his letter of 21 Jan 1945\" src=\"http:\/\/wepidgeon.com\/pidgeonpost\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/3-New-Guinea-and-Morotai-Letters-5-1.jpg\" width=\"584\" height=\"328\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wepidgeon.com\/pidgeonpost\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/3-New-Guinea-and-Morotai-Letters-5-1.jpg 600w, https:\/\/wepidgeon.com\/pidgeonpost\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/3-New-Guinea-and-Morotai-Letters-5-1-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/wepidgeon.com\/pidgeonpost\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/3-New-Guinea-and-Morotai-Letters-5-1-500x280.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 584px) 100vw, 584px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/wepidgeon\/13117758054\/in\/set-72157633808772968\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-3727\" alt=\"1 Guilder note sent by Wep to Jess in his letter of 21 Jan 1945\" src=\"http:\/\/wepidgeon.com\/pidgeonpost\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/3-New-Guinea-and-Morotai-Letters-5-2.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"336\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wepidgeon.com\/pidgeonpost\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/3-New-Guinea-and-Morotai-Letters-5-2.jpg 600w, https:\/\/wepidgeon.com\/pidgeonpost\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/3-New-Guinea-and-Morotai-Letters-5-2-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/wepidgeon.com\/pidgeonpost\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/3-New-Guinea-and-Morotai-Letters-5-2-500x280.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s a guilder, little woman!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Christ the Americans are sweet toothed eaters!  Expensive too \u2013 and little enough of it.  Jack Hickson gets around in a start of chronic hunger pain. 1\/- for a breakfast of a sweet kind of egg bread soaked in syrup.  Coffee of course.  3\/6 for lunch consisting of an indifferent vegetable ball covered with a thin sauce, slice of beetroot &#038; frizzled dehydrated potatoes. No coffee but water with lemon, and flat cakes.  Dinner was a salad of pears &#038; peaches with a near horse radish sauce \u2013 then tomatoe soup \u2013 roast beef &#038; a slawish sort of cabbage &#038; a substance which none could identify &#038; none could eat \u2013 all topped off with a slopingly sweet chocolate pie.  Humm-mm!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1655,62],"tags":[1930,3,1725,952,24,1792,1802,1800,1801,255,1804,1803,1796,65,1984,245],"class_list":["post-3311","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-morotai-jan-feb-1945","category-war-letters","tag-1-guilder","tag-australian-womens-weekly","tag-consolidated-press-office","tag-dutch-new-guinea","tag-food","tag-hollandia","tag-interior-transport-plane-evacuating-wounded","tag-jack-santry","tag-miss-mellion","tag-ron-bennett","tag-schoeten-islands","tag-staunton","tag-us-air-force-camp","tag-war-correspondent","tag-war-letters","tag-wep"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>War Letters - Morotai: 21 Jan 1945, Hollandia; In transit at a US Air Force Camp - Pidgeon Post<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/wepidgeon.com\/pidgeonpost\/?p=3311\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"War Letters - Morotai: 21 Jan 1945, Hollandia; In transit at a US Air Force Camp - Pidgeon Post\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Christ the Americans are sweet toothed eaters! 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