As before
Wednesday evening
Chotie Darling,
Have a few minutes to spare so here goes.
Firstly everything is fine – I’m in the pink and very happy here.
The countryside is beautiful – very much like the Cotswolds – very homely and the same grey stone.
At present I’m staying the night in the grounds of an estate – a titled Frenchman, I can’t give his name. He’s very charming – wears plus fours and boots. I’ve just been talking to him. (I’m desperately tired not having slept since Sunday, and I’m going asleep on the job.)
We’ll come here after the war - it’s lovely. Is that a date? I must close here as I just can’t write any more. All my love, Chotie Darling
Dicker
© Chotie Darling
15th June 1944 – the Battle of Saipan begins Operation Forager, the Allies’ Marianas Campaign to retake Guam, the Northern Marianas Islands and Palau in the western Pacific from the Japanese. 20,000 men had been landed on Saipan by nightfall and the US Fifth Fleet, the largest in the world, faced almost all the Japanese warships in the Pacific.
The US Fourteenth Air Force, based in China, begins a series of heavy raids on the home islands of Japan.
The RAF launched heavy attacks (600 bombers) against Le Havre and Boulogne on the north coast of France.
(From ‘The Second World War’ by Antony Beevor, published by Weidenfield and Nicolson 2012 and WorldWar-2.net).
VIII Corps of Dempsey’s Second Army was activated on 15th June
and included the now re-united 61st Reconnaissance Regiment with the 11th Armoured Division.
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