Number two son searches Top End op shops , lawn sales and parts of Southeast Asia for items for this blog . Over the festive season, he went to Singapore, stumbled upon a pop up market in which the food was good and found a batch of interesting American and German postcards from the two world wars, another a view of the Confederate Prison 1863-1865 , Rock Island Arsenal .
It is proposed to run the postcards in a series of posts, the first , dated October 23 ,1943 , from G. (Gordie ) S. Strickland , at what appears to be the US Navy Training Centre, Great Lakes , sent to his pal, Paul Sward ,1438 East Avenue , Cedar Rapids, Iowa .
From the same period is the following postcard addressed to Miss Jeanette Elrea(?), 912 Kingsbury Street, Springfield , Missouri , possibly sent by her brother , Art, in which he says " we are still here but we will be gone next week ". Posted in San Francisco , it urges people to buy war bonds and stamps and has a one cent postal stamp .
