Letters From War Wednesday: World War II – Bob Gage.

World War II B-24 bomber pilot, Lt. Bob Gage, certainly had a way with words. In this edition of Letters From War Wednesday, we feature another of his short notes home. Gage penned this letter in June 1944, while stationed in the South Pacific.

Lt. Bob Gage - 307th Bomb Group

“It’s getting pretty hot and I guess that Big Blue Ocean, washing up on that white, sandy beach is calling me so loudly I can’t think of much anything else,” he wrote in June. “I’m sure it wouldn’t do for me to tell what the South Pacific is really like—just how deep and stinking the mud gets and so forth.

“…But then, I shouldn’t gripe.  This is my day off.  I can rest and lay in the sack and try to sleep a little.  … I’ve been pretty lucky so far.  I haven’t been in any real tight spots yet.  None, anyway, that an American-built airplane, with American guns and an American trained crew couldn’t get out of.  These are a real bunch of American fighting men here, … both in the air and on the ground.”

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