| dc.description.transcription | 8-24-44Dear Folks,There really isn’t much to tell except my address. You can get it off of the envelope so we won’t go into that. I just ran out of ink and refilled, you can see it change color if I write that much. I’ll tell you all the facts I know supplemented with a few of the rumors and you can make of if whatever you wish.First of all, a fact. I haven’t seen the sun since I left Denison, Texas. “Oh give me a homewhere the buffalo roam.” It isn’t quite as bad as Ollie pictured it however. Everything, and by everything I mean the corn and sunflowers because that is all that there is, is still green. There haven’t been any hot dry winds because it has rained everyday and it has been rather chilly. I am in the second air force which is a training air force. The second air force has five B24 O.T.U.’s that I can go to. I can’t remember all of them but 2 are in Colorado one in Utah and one in Wyoming I think. Theonly thing I am sure of is that one in Puebla, New Mexico. When I leave here, very very shortly, I’ll go to one of these five places for 3 months and train with a crew. After that I’ll come back here on to one of three other places in Nebraska and await overseas assignment. A lot of things can happen but that is the way that it stands now.This post isn’t so good but I guess it does pretty well at that. There are approximately 1,000 men coming in and 1,000 leaving every day so things can’t be too settled. We live in regular G.I. barracks and eat in a G.I. men’shall. The only difference is, the officer paysfor each meal and the G.I.’s don’t. There are two officers clubs but they aren’t much to brag about. If you will excuse me now I’ll go down a half a block to the latrine and brush my teeth so I can go to bed as I have a date with the pressure chamber tomorrow.So I will close with this one word of advice. If you ever come to Lincoln with the expectations of having a good time you will be disappointed.Loads of Love,JoeDon’t send and papers but you can write | |
