November 6, 1944

                                                            Nov. 6
Dear Folks:
            Am writing this while in an upper berth and somewhere north of New Orleans. Boy, is this a jerk-water train! Its taking us 3 days to get to Frederick — the last hour will be by bus from Vernon, Texas. And to think it took just 24 hrs to go down to Miami. Have come by way of Jacksonville, Atlanta, Montgomery, and New Orleans. We got to New Orleans 8 A.M. this morning and left at 2 P.M. so we saw some of the old French part of the town. The streets were lined with antique shops with more “old” stuff in them than England ever saw. Of course there are lots of negroes in the town. The people hadn’t seen much Air Corps from the way they stared at us.
            Crossed the Miss. on a whale of a bridge. Land is very flat around N. Orl. and grow lots of sugar cane

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