Tuesday

July 25, 1944

Dear Sisters.

I am fine and hope you are the same. It is getting hotter here again. I guess we are going to sweat it out plenty again.

Today we had no engines to change and they had us house clean the hanger. Boy, it really needed it but we didn’t like the job at all, but I guess it had to be. Anyway we did it.

Boy, are they ever getting a big overseas shipment ready to go out of here? They are getting malaria, yellow fever shots and all the others that they dish out to fellows who are going over. It seems to be nearly all older fellows who have been on the field for a year or so. I surely hope my name doesn’t come up on it for I have this furlough coming up and if I get a shipment I’ll lose it again and that would really burn me up proper.

I got a letter from Kathryn. It had a dollar in it and it comes in very handy; I must say thanks a million for it.

I got over the snakes alright K so forget about it.

I am glad to know you changed my address for Reader’s Digest. I guess the principle behind the hike is to get you used to sleeping in the open overseas.

I am out of news and think I’ll go to the movies.

So Long

Your Kid Brother

John