| dc.description.transcription | 10-4-44Dear Folks,I haven’t been to the mail room as yet this morning but up until yesterday I still didn’t have any chocolate cake. I guess I must be hungry, thinking of chocolate cake this time of day. I didn’t eat breakfast this morning because I didn’t have any duties scheduled so I slept late and now will have to wait for dinner before I can feed my face. Of course I could put on my clothes and walk across the street to the officers club or down the street a block to the P.X. but you know how it is sometime when you don’t just have to do something.I expect that I had better continue and finish this letter because I may not have any more time off for quite a while. Maybe I shouldn’t have said that because out of every 4 or 5 days we can always count on 12 or 14 hours forfree time, and all at once too. Some of the boys feel that we earn the time off because when we get it we have usually just completed 48 hrs. with a minimum of slumber. Such was not the case this time but it was just a lull between two days of flying. I flew yesterday morning and will fly again this afternoon and night. I have to say afternoon and night, kind of like cereal and fruit, because flying is an all day affair. The minimum of 6 ½ hrs that we spend in the air just starts it because there are about5 other hours spent in preparation and in duties after landing.I haven’t met all my crew as yet but those I do know, the pilot, navigator, bombardier, engineer, and radio man seem to be pretty good boys. I’ll tell you all about them sometime when I get to know them better.This is the month that there won’t be any bond sent by the government so I am sending the money with which to purchase it, a $37.50 one and a $75.00 one. I accidentally had the money order made out for $.25 too much so Papa, you can have that as a tip if you’ll cash it for me and buy the bonds.Maybe you had better spend some of the money to buy a big paste bound box, rope, strings, paper and stamps because I am going to soon need my winter clothes. It is still hot here in the daytime but the nights are getting rather cool.I had better quit now, dress, make up my bed, and go eat and prepare for flying. I won’t hold this letter as long without mailing it as I did the last one.Love,Joe | |
