December 3, 1944

                                                            Frederick, Okla.
Dear Folks:                                                3 Dec. 1944
            We get paid by gov’t check so went to town yesterday to get mine cashed. Did some shopping. The bus to town runs every hour. Were to have a big retreat parade Sat. afternoon but it started raining so they called it off. It is still raining some this morning. Had good weather last week so I flew 3¹/₂ hours a day. We take 2 students up each day. One gets instruction and the other watches and then they change seats when the period is half over. We fly mornings one day and afternoons the next, etc. The rest of the day we go to PT, Link, or ground school. On the mornings I fly have to get up at 6 and be on the line at 7 and get thru at 2 P.M. When flying in the afternoon be on the line at 12:45 and get thru at 7 P.M. so dinner and supper get pushed around a bit. Used Wichita Falls as an auxillary field to shoot landings on last week. Most of these planes have heaters but some of them don’t work and it gets cool upstairs.
            The movie “30 Seconds over Tokio” was here and we went to see it to “learn” how to fly the B-25. Its is the story of Doolittle’s raid on Tokio and the planes he used were B-25. It was a very authentic picture as far as B-25 were concerned.
            Had communion in chapel this morning. Am sending 2 boxes to Chris & Jo, and one to you that has another of their presents which you can wrap and give to them. I didn’t have enough boxes to send them separately.
                                                John