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Helen Angell Fox letters to Bess Peebles Fox, January-May 1944

1944-01-04 Helen Fox to Bess Peebles Fox Page 2

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Here is the set-up as far as I am concerned. No. 91 is not going as fast as was planned, and there are two likely possibilities and one rather vague one. Here they are, and they are likely to happen anywhere from a day or so to ten days from now. I'll list them in order of probability.

    1. Join 91 at Clinton and be there with my unit till about Feb. 15th, in which case I'd be very likely to get home a few days. Then go where planned.
    2. Be sent to the same place unassigned to a unit as part of a total of 1400 Red Cross workers they need there for some vague reason. (Sail rather soon.)
    3. Either have 91 get changed or me changed because of drastic strategic changes which are always possible when you are talking about where anything is going. (Don said sometimes they switched a whole block of units)

Don said most of the hospitals going over now would probably move along as the front advances, which was just what I had wanted. It looks as though things would work out as planned pretty much and as we hoped. By the way, he said that if nothing had been done about it I would have gone long ago, and to the Pacific - Numea, or Numia, or something like that. I don't even know where it is, do you? He agrees that the other direction is much to be preferred and he hopes to get there himself.  He gave me the name of an American General and a British Colonel he knows well and who are there. I hope I get there & can see them. At any rate, if anything is changed it won't be anyone's fault, but just one of the fortunes of war. I know Don will be on the alert to watch it. He laughed today when he told me that I had been reassigned to another unit for 15 minutes and then they decided the old one was as likely to go early as the other. It is really funny how they juggle me around.

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2 Here is the set-up as far as I am concerned. No. 91 is not going as fast as was planned, and there are two likely possibilities and one rather vague one. Here they are, and they are likely to happen anywhere from a day or so to ten days from now. I'll list them in order of probability. 1. Join 91 at Clinton and be there with my unit till about Feb. 15th, in which case I'd be very likely to get home a few days. Then go where planned. 2. Be sent to the same place unassigned to a unit as part of a total of 1400 Red Cross workers they need there for some vague reason. (Sail rather soon.) 3. Either have 91 get changed or me changed because of drastic strategic changes which are always possible when you are talking about where anything is going. (Don said sometimes they switched a whole block of units) Don said most of the hospitals going over now would probably move along as the front advances, which was just what I had wanted. It looks as though things would work out as planned pretty much and as we hoped. By the way, he said that if nothing had been done about it I would have gone long ago, and to the Pacific - Numea, or Numia, or something like that. I don't even know where it is, do you? He agrees that the other direction is much to be preferred and he hopes to get there himself. He gave me the name of an American General and a British Colonel he knows well and who are there. I hope I get there & can see them. At any rate, if anything is changed it won't be anyone's fault, but just one of the fortunes of war. I know Don will be on the alert to watch it. He laughed today when he told me that I had been reassigned to another unit for 15 minutes and then they decided the old one was as likely to go early as the other. It is really funny how they juggle me around.