Letter from the USS Parche

Copyright under the CC BY:SA 3.0+ license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/) by George Oliver Atkinson Jr and his descendants. Letter number 26 sent from my maternal grandfather to my maternal grandmother while he was en route to Bikini Atoll. Scanned in by my Uncle, who provided the following additional information: 1) The circled number in the lower left corner was a method used by my grandparents to refer to particular letters from the other one when writing back, and also so that the recipient could read them in the order they were written - the delivery was spotty and on both ends of the mail - letters would arrive out of order, in clumps, or none at all, even if you mailed one a day at the same time. 2) The post mark from the sub's post office has the official US NAVY Submariners insignia (2 dolphin fish around the conning tower of a sub). A sailor could wear this insignia (cloth for enlisted, metal for officers, I think) only after completing Sub Qualifications - about a year of schooling. 3) The address where my grandmother was staying there in Lincoln, Nebraska was the home of Grandma Lu, my great-great-grandmother, after whom I am named. 4) Notice that he included "CROSSROADS" in his return address - the tests themselves were not secret, just the results, we figure.