June 22-25, 1944

Dear Folks:                                                June 22
            Took a busman’s holiday yesterday. The service outfit on the field has a small 2-place monoplane. Watkinson and I borrowed it for the afternoon and went over to another field to see a friend of his from his home town in Nebraska. The plane has about the same power as our primary trainers did. It is an English make and no one on the field knew much about it so we found out as we went along. It cruised at 100 m.p.h. and seemed like standing still. The other field was only 60 mi. away so we didn’t take a map. We got over where the field was supposed to be and buzzed around looking for it. The plane didn’t have any radio so we landed at another field to find out where we were and then had to go another 20 mi. Got there O.K. and Watt found his friend. We sat in a Spitfire and a P-38 and had more fun than a 12 yr. old at the city airport. Ate supper there and got back about sun down without landing on the way back. Watt flew over and I flew back. It was quite a relief to fly around without peeping cautiously from under a helmet. Ha!
            Yes, Charley Y. will have to use kerosene lamps for another 3 yr. to make up the recent expense. Unger better get a pair of wings when he gets so high off the ground. Got the cookies yesterday. You should have raised one of the skunks. They make dandy pets it seems. See P. Humfeld got a promotion. How did Fullington & Mark get those commisions so fast? I’m in the wrong branch, I guess.
            June 25. We just finished a little wiring in the hut. Fixed it so we have a light over the table and also can now have the radio on without having the lites on. The cookies were good. Two boxes kept them in good shape. I suppose you hear about the doodle-bombs. Our squadron got its air-medals to-day.
                                    Yours truly,
                                                John