December 7, 1942 – Shipment to Pre-flight Next Week.

Monday Evening

Dear Mom + Dad,

Your Tuesday evening letter arrived today along with a mess of other mail that I will have to answer. I’m going to do yours first and then on to the rest. I was very glad to receive Jimmy’s address and I’ll write him as soon as I can get caught up. I’m still in the dark as to where he is. His address is an overseas address so I don’t know what to make of it.

Very sorry to hear that both of you are or were sick. I trust it is the latter and that you are in fine shape now. I can’t really imagine anyone being sick anymore as I feel fine and have not been sick in a long while even though I have had a few days where I didn’t feel so hot. That is as it should be. Let’s hope that you are fine now.

There is a shipment going to pre-flight sometime this week. The main question is will I be on it or not? I sure hope so as I’d like to get out of here and get started on schooling. I’ll just have to wait and find out what happens. So cross those fingers again for me. If I stay here another month I think I will go a little crazy.

There is a rumor going around that we might get out on open post tomorrow. I don’t know if we will get it or not but let’s hope so. They will have to let us out once before Christmas as naturally we will have to buy a few things. I hope that by this time you have my Christmas all set. I’m not going to partake in it too much but then you have my instructions.

I guess that’s it for now as I have a million more letters to write. So I’ll sign off for tonight.

Love
Bob