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dc.creatorHays, Joseph Warren
dc.date.accessioned2020-09-02T18:22:41Z
dc.date.available2020-09-02T18:22:41Z
dc.date.issued1944-01-06
dc.identifier.urihttps://repository.tcu.edu/handle/116099117/40474
dc.descriptionHays reports he is tired and flying is work.
dc.format.mediumpaper
dc.languageen_US
dc.relationJoseph Warren Hays Papers (MS 159)
dc.rightsPrior written permission from TCU Special Collections required to use any file.
dc.sourceSeries I, Box 1, Folder 3
dc.subjectWorld War II
dc.subjectUnited States Army
dc.subjectUnited States Army Air Corps
dc.subjectSheppard Field
dc.titleHays letter to family
dc.typeDocument
dc.description.transcriptionA/C Hays Joseph W. Addressed to: Mrs. E.A. Hays 512 W. Mulkey, Ft. Worth, Texas 18242012 SQUAD.4 FLT.G 69thA.A.F.F.T.D. Clarksdale, Miss[postcard stamp Jan 6 11 AM 1944 Clarksdale Miss]Dear Folks,Tonight is open post andthis morning I planned to stay at home and write some letters but I was so tired that this one card is all that I could manage. I am tired. Flying iswork. There is nothing new anyway, except that I wasn’t late Xmas. I guess by this time both of you are well so next write me that Eddie has a ring worm or something. I’ll write a letter soon.Love,Joe[front of postcard has photo two people in an airplane and the text, Fairchild PT-23 Primary Trainer]


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  • Joseph Warren Hays Papers [162]
    The collection includes a complete set of letters written by Joseph Warren Hays to his family while serving in the Army Air Corps during World War II. The letters detail his aviation training across the United States and his service in Europe toward the end of the war. In his later years, Mr. Hays wrote recollections of his missions over Europe. The collection also includes printed publications, newspaper clippings, a scrapbook, a photograph of Hays, and ephemera.

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