Darlings,
Your lovely letter arrived today. I certainly wish I could see the boys again. You might know Rolly wouldn’t be in the army-if he was going to college it would be different but, I figure you can learn a lot in this army. Are there many kids left, besides Rolly? I wonder what it is like in Minneapolis. Pretty dead I suppose.
The war news just sounds too good. Just my luck, this war will stop before I can see something.
No flying today-the weather was pretty foggy-I had quite an experience yesterday. My friend Jack Patterson had something wrong with his engine so he had to make a forced landing in a farmer’s field. I picked up his SOS call on my radio set, so I circled him until help arrived from the home field. He made a beautiful forced landing-we are taught how to make forced landings, right from the start. We are going to start formation flying-that is if I pass my 20 hour check.
Tell Jocie she can wear any of my shirts if she wants to. I remember when that was the rage with us-remember? It seems that khaki is the rage now-joke!!
That’s pretty rough-the fuel oil I mean. I can see the old heating pad will see plenty of use.
Well, darlings, I must study meteorology-darn it! I don’t know what I’ll do if they give us a free hour-keep your fingers crossed for my 20 hour check-
Your loving son,
Jim