Darlings,
Your lovely letter arrived today-it’s fun to read mail from home.
I think that’s a wonderful idea of yours-putting my snaps in a scrapbook I mean. This last roll I sent back has too many bad pictures of myself in it. Just put the good ones in. It will be fun to look at some day. Seeing all the pictures of my instructors and friends.
So dad bought a new hat. I’ll bet it’s a honey-remember when I used to tell dad the correct way to wear his hat? Wish I could now-
Had a big day yesterday, we have been on a practice alert for three days now. We must carry our gas masks at all times. Mess, flight line, school-everywhere. While we were flying in the afternoon the alert signal sounded. All the ships in the air had strict instructions to land at A3 auxiliary field-Then disperse the ships across the field. What a job it was. Then to top it off-I had two hours in the link training scheduled after dinner-7:30 PM to 9:30 PM-when I hit the bed last night I didn’t waste any time falling asleep.
Well, darlings, I’m keeping up my diary every day-certainly miss you-the only thing I really want for Christmas is a chronograph watch but, they are pretty hard to get now. Maybe dad could get one-I don’t know. They’re great help to the airman-
love,
Jim