December 14, 1944

                                                            Frederick, Okla.
Dear Folks:                                                14 Dec. 1944
            We didn’t get back here until Monday afternoon. They had to put all ships in the hangar to melt the ice and couldn’t get around to ours until Sunday evening. Had a clear sky coming back.
            I forgot to tell you about the dinner we had Sat. evening in Tulsa. A lieut in Operations told us of a lady having a turkey dinner for her birthday and she wanted some officers. Anything for a free turkey dinner so we went. Her name was Mrs. Zink. She admitted being 47. Mr. Zink was there as well as a Mrs. Hunter & son (a Pvt.) from Conneticut and friends of the family. Mr. Zink is a manufacturer of burners for oil refineries and you should of heard them all howl about income taxes. They were all Republicans so this country is going to the dogs. They had a fine place and we had a good dinner. Mrs. Zink came from Kans.
                                                            John