| dc.description.transcription | 6-2-44Dear Folks,And then the rains came. O, para m?hermana, quien est?a mi casa ahora, esta llorando mucho. How’mI doing honey. It has been threatening rain all week but we have escaped with the exceptions of a few scattered thundershowers, enough to call flying off however. But today the weatherman didn’t bother to scatter any thunderstorms he just collected all ofthem over George Field and then let go.Naturally we were in formation and on our way home from the flight line when it broke. We all got soaked to the skins but I think that the warm shower I took and the dry clothes I put on kept me safe from a cold, I’ll tell you the next time I write.Now forsome bad news. Mama you and Papa can stop listening for a long distance from Dallas. Bill just told me yesterday that his folks weren’t coming in the car so I guess that it is no ride. ----Taps, I’ll finish this tomorrow.6-3-44It is now12:20 Saturday and we have already put in quite a day, 3 hours of ground school, a parade, a standby inspection, P.T., and dinner. We have to go back to ground school in a few minutes and stay until 3:00 and then open post until 9:00 Monday morning. I don’t know what is getting intothis army, they must be getting soft orsomething. I think Bill and I will stick out our thumbs and go to Seymore Ind. We both know some boys that are in advanced there. If our thumbing luck is bad he knows some people that live in a little town halfways between here and there and then there is always a bus.I’veseen most of the south so now I guess now I’ll start looking the north over.I didn’t do much flying last week as I was scheduled to fly mostly in the afternoon and that is when the thunderstorms always blew in. We did fly one night and I got in 1 ½ hrs. of night flying plus 1 hour of co-pilot time. The next time we fly at night I’ll probably go on a cross country to St. Louis Indianappolis and return. They are doing their best to make this flying stuff difficult. The fun really starts when we fly formation at night. I can hardly wait.The mail man was good to me today, he brough me a letter from Mama, and one from Amy, and a package of somethingfrom Ruth. I can make out what is on the bottom layer but I haven’t quite decided what that is supposed to be on top. When you write Ruth, let me know whether I am supposed to eat it or not. No kidding Ruth the cookies are swell but the top layer did get just a little crushed.Don’t worry though it will be eaten. If I don’t do it my room mates will look after the matter for me. We usually made it a point to help each other like that.It is time for classes so I’ll quit and get this in the mail. Until the next time,All my love,Joe | |
