Darlings,
Flew three periods today-I have about 17 hours now. Pretty close to the 20 hour check now. I certainly hope I can make it-
Tony got a break today-he is going to get liaison pilot. A Liaison pilot flies smaller ships but, still it’s a lot better than staying on the ground. When you begin to love flying-it’s quite a blow when they take it away from you. I’m so glad Tony’s getting a break. It looked pretty dark for a while. The government finally woke up I guess. Tony had 70 hours to his credit when he washed. They used to put them back in the ranks. I never could understand why they didn’t let the washouts fly the smaller ships.
Well, darlings, Christmas is getting closer every day-if we fly seven days a week, like we have lately-I don’t know what I’ll do. Gosh! I wish I could get home for Christmas. It almost makes tears come to my eyes when I think about it.
Did you know I’m keeping a diary. I have been keeping it for quite a while now. Don’t know why didn’t tell you before-just forgot I guess.
It will be nice to read some day-I am going to try to fill it in from the day I left Minneapolis. Pete has kept his all the way. He has lots of things we did together such as soloed-checks, etc. we have been together so much. I think it will be easy to fill it out entirely.
Well darlings, good night.
Your loving son,
Jim