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| 5 | +title: Letter of three days from Murray Wilson to Margaret, starting 1945-10-26 |
| 6 | +author: william-murray-wilson |
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| 32 | +date: 1945-10-26 |
| 33 | +date_precision: month |
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| 39 | + - helen-margaret-hall |
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| 42 | + - ww2 |
| 43 | +description: A letter of three parts, written in October and November 1954 by Murray Wilson to his wife Margaret. |
| 44 | +--- |
| 45 | + |
| 46 | +## Transcription |
| 47 | + |
| 48 | +406376 F/Lt W.M. Wilson\ |
| 49 | +Group 679 RAAF Pacific \ |
| 50 | +Friday 26th Oct 45. |
| 51 | + |
| 52 | +My Own Beloved, |
| 53 | + |
| 54 | +Tomorrow we leave Tokyo my sweet & I |
| 55 | +must say I'm very glad of it. We're only going |
| 56 | +as far as Kamaya, right in the south of Japan |
| 57 | +then the next day will go to Lasag, stopping |
| 58 | +at Okinawa on the way & then the following |
| 59 | +day we hope to get to Lahnan. Gosh it will |
| 60 | +be good to get back there & get some mail |
| 61 | +darling. That's the big thing about getting |
| 62 | +away from here — oh I do want a letter or |
| 63 | +two from my wife so badly beloved & in |
| 64 | +just a few days I'll have some. It's such a |
| 65 | +good thought. |
| 66 | + |
| 67 | +This trip has been good that it's let us |
| 68 | +see a bit of Japan & get some idea of how the |
| 69 | +surrender is going & also get an idea of |
| 70 | +how the people here {?} it all. This place |
| 71 | +we've been staying at has been great for |
| 72 | +getting different ?? from the ?? |
| 73 | +& then last night we spoke for a long time |
| 74 | +with a Jap who was very good on his English |
| 75 | +& we get this idea. All most interesting. |
| 76 | + |
| 77 | +Yesterday I got a few back copies of the |
| 78 | +"Nippon Times" & I think I'll post them home |
| 79 | +from Laboun. There's lots of interesting |
| 80 | + |
| 81 | +{{{page-break}}} |
| 82 | + |
| 83 | +2 |
| 84 | + |
| 85 | +reading in them & perhaps we can peruse |
| 86 | +them at leisure together later on. I'd rather |
| 87 | +post them than carry them as I don't want |
| 88 | +to have too much to take with me on the |
| 89 | +trip home. |
| 90 | + |
| 91 | +This afternoon we had quite a good |
| 92 | +trip to Yokahama — it's about fifteen or twenty miles |
| 93 | +south of Tokyo but really the two cities |
| 94 | +run into each other. The damage is truly |
| 95 | +amazing. All the way it's just one great ?? |
| 96 | +of burnt ?? land — one can't say burnt |
| 97 | +out buildings as there aren't any shells |
| 98 | +left — every thing is flat on the ground, |
| 99 | +just a litter of rusting iron. Here & there |
| 100 | +of course there are parts that escaped |
| 101 | +but they are very few. The outstanding |
| 102 | +thing I thought was the number of office |
| 103 | +safes there are just standing in the open. |
| 104 | +They're all that's left of hudnreds of buildings |
| 105 | +& offices & factories — they're rusty & |
| 106 | +all broken open, but they still stand |
| 107 | +there as a reminder that once that place |
| 108 | +was a building. I didn't realise before |
| 109 | +that a city had so many safes before. The |
| 110 | +thing is that all of these buildings were just |
| 111 | +wood & iron. The tale that Tokya would |
| 112 | +burn well was very true. |
| 113 | + |
| 114 | +{{{page-break}}} |
| 115 | + |
| 116 | +3 |
| 117 | + |
| 118 | +While at Yokahama we found an |
| 119 | +American officers |
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