Saturday Evening
Dear Mom + Dad,
Your
Sunday evening letter caught up with me today and it seemed swell to hear from
you. Will you give my best to Harold and
Mariam and tell them I got a kick out of the pictures of Lee and the
letter. That kid sure has grown since I
saw him in June. But then I suppose that’s
natural as eight months has gone by since then.
It seems like an awful long time since I was last home and I guess it
is. I will say that I’ve enjoyed my life
more since I’ve been in the air corps that I did in the “medics”. Of course it hasn’t been a happy time but I’ve
liked my work much more and I’ve had better treatment all along the line.
Today it
happened! I went up for the first time. It was really a big thrill to get up there in
the sky and fly around. We were kept on
the ground for 2 hours because of poor visibility and as a consequence we lost
a lot of time. Each instructor has five
students under him and as a consequence I got only 21 minutes. Perhaps the biggest thrill of all was when we
climbed to 2000 ft and the instructor says take over. It sure is a strange feeling being up there
at those controls for the first time. It
isn’t as easy as it looks to control that darn thing. I managed to zigzag it along for a short
while. I can see now why so many wash
out. For if you can’t get the feel of
the plane in the time allotted to you, you wash out. I think I can do it but you can’t tell yet. I’ve still got my fingers crossed. Regardless it is a big thrill and I know I’m
going to like it.
We go up
again tomorrow for another crack at it to try and catch up a little on the time
we lost because of the bad weather. It rained a little afternoon but it looks
like it will be clear again.
There is
only one bad feature of our life here. For
some ungodly reason they won’t let us have a radio. I had to turn mine in the other day to be returned
at the time I leave. I’ve never heard of
anything like that before in the army but it is regulations here so I have to
abide by them. I’m sure going to miss
that little jute box. Outside of that
everything is fine and I love it.
If the
weather continues good next week, we should have an open post next weekend on
Saturday night and all day Sunday. I will
then get my first chance to look the town over.
I hear that it is really swell and that the cadets really rate.
I’m
going to send you a copy of the paper of the school here in a separate envelop. I imagine it will aid you in understanding my
new life.
I guess
that’s the story for tonight. I’ll try
and get another note off tomorrow night.
However, if you don’t hear from me it is because I’m busy. Incidentally I mailed you on my average in
pre flight as an upperclassmen I got my marks.
Just before I left and it was 91% instead of 89% which is just a little
better.
All my love
Bobby
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