November 25, 1944

                                                            Frederick Okla.
Dear Folks:                                                25 Nov. 1944
            Well, I suppose you had your “turkey” or a reasonably pure alloy thereof last Thursday. We had turkey for dinner. 335 pounds were eaten by the officers and their guests. A lot of the men had their wives or folks out for dinner at the club here on the field. There was no vacation here, either. I flew Thursday morning. Then at 1 P.M. started out for Brooks Field near San Antonio. We were to ferry some B-25s back from there. Since there were 2 planes going down and 6 pilots we tossed to see who would fly down. I won for one plane so I piloted both ways. On the return trip we had a pilot and engineer per plane. We came back in formation. It was after dark when we got back so got a night landing in.
            Last Tuesday nite one of the instructors that had been using the AT-17 here said “lets go fly” so we went up for 2 hrs. and shot landings so I’m checked out in the AT-17 again. It is the plane I flew in Advanced.
            It rained yesterday and this morning there was a 30 mph. wind. We were slow-flying this morning into the wind 100 mph. at 10,000 ft. and standing still in respect to the ground so there was a wind up there too.
            The cookies came in good shape. Thanks. The clock and clothes also came. This building is trembling in the wind. We meet the new students Sunday.
            Glad to hear Arlan was home. Suppose he went back to Milwaukee. The ordinary mail gets here same time as airmail. Yes we carry our own coal and build our own fires. The buildings are one-story. The chapel is quite large for a field this size. Was glad to hear from Horridge. I see by the paper where Harold Hundley used to be stationed here.
                                    Yours truly,
                                                John