November 28, 1943

                                                            Nov 28
Dear Folks:
            Our men got back from the tour on Wed. I haven’t flown for about 2 weeks, but neither have the rest of the co-pilots. I went Tues. nite with the basket ball team of our squadron to see the game between Bowman Field and us. The game was played at Bowman Field and we won: 36-30. Bowman Field is right in the city of Louisville. They train glider pilots there, also Air Evacuation nurses.
            We are getting more shots so everybody has sore arms. I started a series on both cholera and typhus soon after I got here. I had just finished them and a new directive came out that everybody in an outfit has to have their shot records dated at the same time. That date was yesterday to I have to start over with tetanus, typhoid, small pox, typhis, cholera, and yellow fever. I think the army has a surplus of serum. More fun! The enlisted men had a show down inspection of equipment Sat. We officers had to do the checking. There will be another one for us on Tues. evening.
            I have a new room mate, 2nd Lt. Jim Ballard from N.C. He is a navigator-bombadier. Has 6 pair of low-cut shoes.
            The pilots have to take their turn at running the bomb sight on the bomb trainer in order to know something about what the bombadier has to do. The bomb sight is the same as the one used on the planes. Berlin surely got plastered.
            Where is Chris getting the welding lessons and on what type of welder? No, didn’t have the fleece lined clothes with us when we came back from Myrtle Beach. I wrote Aunt Hattie last week.
                                    Guess thats all
                                                Yours truly,
                                                            John