Dec 3, 1944

Dear Sisters,

We are fine and I hope you are all the same.

I really intended getting a bunch of letters written today, but those people that we know and live right behind us came over for us to come to their place for dinner we had roast chicken, filling, gravy, potatoes, beans, fruited jello and fruit cake and coffee. We ate long and talked. Finally they got the idea that we go and shoot a couple of rabbits so we gathered up guns and started off, but before we got very far the twilight turned to darkness and it started to snow like all sixty so we started back home I spied a rabbit along the road and shot it only to find it was a big old jack and they say they are no good eating so we left it lay and came into town then we ate supper and talked a bit more it really got late.

I got a letter from Uncle Elmer and he had up 5 bucks in it for me to buy something for Christmas it surely was very nice of him. On Thursday I had to go to a lecture and the guy raved on so long that we missed our pay call so they decided to pay us at 1400. I went only to find I had been red lined no pay.

We are very busy at the field more work [is] piled up than we [have] had for awhile. Then another fellow from our shift is shipping out again, lay the whole field is in an uproar with fellows being shipped out. There is a rumor that 35% of all the personnel is going to be sent out I don’t now how much truth there is to it but it surely looks that way.

I got the school paper Kathryn. It was interesting but I don’t think it was as good as it was before.

Yes Mildred I am or was surprised to hear that you were in Ohio but it was nice that you got a ride and I don’t blame you for going. It was a nice change. Yea it would be nice if Colo. were closer.

Yes I’m still changing engines. You asked a question I don’t [k]now really how to answer as I just don’t get the question, but if you mean mechanics, there are no new ones coming in at all. If you mean cadets, there are new ones and coming in whenever a class graduates a new one comes in.

I guess the L.N.C. wishes they had bought the manufacturing works as they would have very handy for them.

Yes I can get cigarettes [of] any brand at all at camp. We had been limited to two packs per day but it has been increased to 4 now. We can also get 5 cent cigars.

No I didn’t now Jimmy Knowles wanted to rent Raymond’s house.

Yes Irma the cake was grand when it arrived.

My radio plays good again, but I [k]now the one tube is weak and I guess it would play a lot better with a new one.

Yes all the streets are quite wide they didn’t cramp a bit but than there was no need to with all the praise around.

Boy it surely looks like those bombers based in Saipan really are after Japan for sure. I guess we can get supplies in there a lot easier than into China, that is why the difference.

No I don’t mind getting clippings in my mail.

Well, I guess I’ll sign off for tonight.

So Long,

Love

John