Dart begins by telling Dot that all the plans for the weekend are in place, but since he’ll already be on his way by the time she gets this letter, there’s no point in going over the details; then he prceeds to tell her the details.

Hal Martin and Jimmy “Sack” Puckett are going to Boston. From there, they’ll drive Hal’s ’38 Ford to Lake Sunapee. Dart will call Dot as he leaves Norfolk to see if she wants to pick him up at Penn Station in NYC. (Does he even question that she’d miss one minute of his short visit? Of course she’ll meet him at Penn Station!)

He’s writing this from his 0400 to 0800 watch. It’s a beautiful, balmy night in the shipyard, but he’s homesick. Blame it on the full moon overhead, which always seems to make him feel lonesome. He describes this moon as looking “tarnished.” It won’t be long now before he and Dot are enjoying a full moon over Cleveland, together.

He can hardly believe that after all these months of longing, he’ll actually have her in his arms tomorrow night! Such joy!

“Oh, Darling, this can’t be a dream! Just can’t wake up now and find that all that’s happened since 29 April has been imagined and it’s 30 April and we’re still bouncing around Okinawa. I guess it’s real, though, even if we wish some of it could have been a dream.” How long, I wonder, will he be haunted by the events of April 29, 1945?

Because they’ll be together over the next couple of days, there are no letters until Dot’s on August 27.