| dc.description.transcription | 11-6-44Dear Folks,Well, well, what do you know, another day off. These days off aren’t really supposed to be that way. I am supposed to have trainers but since I am really a month ahead of most of the boysI get out of a lot of them. To clarify myself, I am a month ahead because I got a lot of my trainers off the first month I was here when I wasn’t doing much flying. Also I just flew 3 hours yesterday instead of the usual 6 1/2. I had to sustain an injury to do it but I believe it was worth it. The mission was an instrument check made with no one flying buy two pilots, two co-pilots, an instructor pilot, an engineer, and a radio operator. The other co-pilot and I weren’t flying right then so we went back into the waist and went to sleep. All was going well until I woke up, stretched, and started to jump down off the half deck to the floor. When I jumped I scratched my knee on an oxygen bottle. The airplane was going to land any hour so, “I seen my chanc’t and I acted.” I squeezed it a little bit and made it bleed, then I smeared some iodine on my wound from the first aid kit and presented my case to the instructor pilot. He reluctantly let me out so I limpingly departed until I was at of sight, then I quickened my pace to a full gallop till I reached my sack. Clever huh?What is this stuff about my getting lost. Please expain yourself because I know not of which thou speakest. Say, Papa, I’ve got a little problem for you. The rest of you can help too but I bet that none of you can do it. It is supposed to be done with satelen but a pencil mark (!) will serve the purpose. What I want you to do is move one, and only once, notch from one position to another and make the following equation true.IV –III = VIIDon’t wait to write until you do it because I would like to hear from you sometime before the war is over.Ha,Love,Joe | |
