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dc.creatorHays, Joseph Warren
dc.date.accessioned2020-09-02T18:23:40Z
dc.date.available2020-09-02T18:23:40Z
dc.date.issued1944-05-27
dc.identifier.urihttps://repository.tcu.edu/handle/116099117/40494
dc.descriptionHays reports night flying, formation, and cross country. Will be graduating soon.
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.transcription5-27-44Dear Folks,While I am sitting here trying to think of a way to start this thing I’ll just do it by saying what I have just said. Now another a pause while I try to think of how to go on from there. The only thing to report is that another week oflabor has gone by and that in itself is enoughI guess. The only thing different about this week from any preceding week is that I started night flying, formation, and cross country. No more instruments yet, but they’ll be here soon enough. Everything else I can take in my stride with just the usual difficulties but of those instruments. I think I told you in my last letter that by the grace of God and a Texan I passed my first part of the instrument course here. The next part consists of beam flying and radio work.The old timers tell me that this part isn’t too too too difficult so maybe I can squeezeby that too. Too many too’s in that last sentence. I’ll keep you posted on how I’m making out. If everything does go all right, hold your hats, Mama, you and Papa may get a ride up here to watch me graduate. I don’t know whether you met Bill Marshal or not but yea or nea, he is one of my Buddies that I have been with ever since Peabody. He was at Sheppard Field too but I didn’t know him then. Anyhow his home is in Dallas and his Folks want to come up here and watch him graduate. If they can see their way clear to come in the car considering gas, time, wear and tear etc., he is going to let them come. And if they bring the car he is going to ask them to invite you to come with them. It is a month away yet and lots of things can happen in a month but you can be prepared just in case. If they can’t come in the car he isn’t going to let them come at all because of the same reason I won’t let you come. He figures that maybe he can scheme some way of getting home quicker if he is by himself. And as I see it, the main point of graduating is getting to come home anyhow.This cross country I spoke of in the first part of the letter wasn’t one of those long ones thatI told you about last time. This one was only down to Evansville to Indianapolisand back. I still may get to go on one of those long ones if we can even get good weather all the way. They should be a lot of fun, especially the stopover at a stray field. My total time runs some where around 35 hours with 15 hours co pilot time. When I get through I will have about doubled both of those I imagine. That only adds up to one thing, a lot of flying in the next three weeks. It can be done all night if the weather will just stay good.Well Ruthie May, I see that once again you are resident of 512. No use telling Dub that I think he made a big mistake or he’ll find that out soon enough so just tell him howdy and good luck. It is sack time for me so I’ll quit.Love, JoeHere is a picture of me that I have had ever since Primary but had about forgotten about. It was taken at Clarksdale on a cold, bleak, windy winter day.


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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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