Darlings-
Had a pretty good day today. We flew in the morning and night both. We flew our cross country this morning. It was really fun-we plotted our own courses and flew the whole thing on maps-then hopped in our planes and tried to stay on the right course. The course was about 200 miles in length, I guess.
At our halfway point we landed at a big bomber base at Redding California. Was it ever fun to land our plane on that 2 mile runway. We went to school in the afternoon then right back down to the flight line again. I got two hours of night formation.
Gosh! I thought that formation was hard but, this night formation has it beat a mile. All we have are three little lights to guide by. One green light on the starboard and a red one on the port side then a white one on the top of the tail. At night we can’t see the lead ship signals so we have to watch extra careful for those lights moving up or down. When the light moves it means he is turning so we put our wings at the same angle then we stay right in there. Gosh! It really is fun though-I have almost 50 hours of basic now. My time is getting larger all the time.
I wish they would give us time to sleep once a week though-I haven’t had six hours of sleep in one night since I’ve been here. Well, darlings, I must go to bed now-another day, another dollar they say.
Received a letter from Ned today-it’s good to hear from the boys.
Your loving son,
Jim