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Show Letter Comes From Trinidad Cpl. Grant L. Twitchell, from the Base Weather station, Miami, Florida, wrote a long letter this week from Trinidad, B. W. I., to his aunt, Mrs. Chlora Twitchell. The week before postcards came from Panama, where Lynn had had a trip by air from Trinidad. He says "We flew over the coast of Venezuela, and then northeast to Dutch island of Curacao. There we refueled and ate lunch at $1 a plate, which was made up of but cheese and butter in it, and a glass of milk. They threw in some tooth picks without charging us for them. Then we flew west-southwest over the coast of Colombia to to the city of Baranquilla. We circled cir-cled that place for about 15 minutes min-utes so they could get our number because our radio went dead just just after leaving Curacao. Then we flew on to the coast of Panama and flew due west along the coast about 40 miles, and then flew NW and came out over the aPcific. After Af-ter turnig arounnd we came back in and lit at Albrook Field about 9 hours after we left Trinidad." Lynn says he took 83 pictures most of them in color. He got pictures pic-tures of the three biggest aircrafts carriers of the U. S. Atlantic Fleet and the battle ship Missouri. He has traveled about 13,500 miles sin ce he enlisted 15 months ago, a-bout a-bout 5,00 miles of that by air. He has been in 30 states and the District Dis-trict of Columbia, 8 foreign countries coun-tries and possessions, not counting the Bahamas or Antilles islands. He expects to have a trip to Rio de Janeiro soon. He had met two Utah men on the Panama trip, John W. Eddins, from Provo, and Donald Henderson, of Cannonville, a nephew of Warren Henderson. And the big news was that he had met Reed Davis, first person from home he had seen in the past 10 months. He had also talked to Arthur Johnson,, from Milford. Reed and Lyn had a long visit, and Reed planned to visit Lynn at Trinidad at the end of March. Lynn wrote "Reed is going to try to transfer over here. If he can do that .things will be right nice for both of us." |
