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    "ocrText": "HEADQUARTERS\nU. S. FORCES, EUROPEAN THEATER\nOffice of the Commanding General\nFrankfurt, Germany\n17 August, 1945\nDearest Folks:\nThis is V-J Day. The world over is enjoying the first day of peace it has\nknown in a long time and a well-deserved rest has been granted everyone.\nI've been working today, along with Nana cause the Boss evidentally forgot\nit was a holiday. However, my day will come next week when I think I'm\ngoing to London for a few days with the Boss. I'm really looking forward\nto it, as London is one city I've always wanted to visit and this chance may\nnot come again. Have really been the nomadic little WAC of late, as last\nTuesday I went to Paris for the day when Col. Gault, Lt. Summersby and Nana\nand I flew down in the Boss's plane - He was in Moscow. I went up to 29 Rue\nde Beri to see the Hanford, but she was out and I didn't have another chance\nto see her all day, although I did leave a message tax her. Had lunch at the\nRitz (took my insignia off and made out like I was a civilian so's I could\neat in Officers' Dining Room). Jack Benny, Mary Livingston, John Kiernan,\nF. P. Adams were all there and I was, of course, all thrilled and stuff.\nBought some perfume and was most fortunate to be able to buy a gorgeous\nlittle travelling alarm clock which I have sent home - along with perfume\nfor you, Mom, and some china, etc - with Capt. Irv Unger who is one of\nGeneral E's navigators. The boys are flying home tomorrow for a week or\nso and Irv promised to deliver the package for me. I gave him the keys\nto the apt. and he may stay there a night or two as he plans to be in N.Y.\na couple of days before they take off again for Frankfurt, okay? I have\nwritten Tom a note to let him in and also a note which he will put with\nthe package in the apt. if he goes to N.Y. If not, he will mail the\npackage and it will be in the apt. on your return to New York. Sho wish I\ncould stowaway one time, but my day will come! In the meantime I am\nhaving beautimp fun running - or rather flying - around the countryside.\nPlease excuse the typing and messy appearance of the letter. I'm rushing\nlike the dickens to make it home by 6:30 in order to get to the train on\ntime. Capt. Cannon is having a farewell party for Van, one of the Boss's\norderlies who is going home with the plane. He is also going home to a\ndischarge! Has been overseas almost 4 years!\nThanx for all your letters - they are really wonderful and you sho do\nsound like you are having fun at the Lake. Be sure and give my love\nto all the folks at the Lake and take good care of yourselves. Must\nreally run off now - more later.\nLove,\nFrankie."
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