Thur June 18, 45

Dear sisters

Well I’ll start this to day but I wont promise to finish but I’ll try. As a general rule I’ve been so busy that I really didn’t have a minutes time.

Mary came home for lunch & has a sore throat & looks sick I just made her go to the doctor I hope she gets back before I must go to the field.

It is very dark out, damp & raw I guess we are going to get some bad weather. I see by the paper that you had 16 inches of snow again.

I had to go to school 2 day this week in the mornings than yesterday I had to take all of my clothes out for inspection so it didn’t give me much time.

It was swell of you to send the chocolate cake it got here last nite & there isn’t to much of it left as we gave it a going over than & again today it surely held up good not broken or anything it looks a lot better than the things that got slammed around by the army P.O. Thanks a lot for it we surely appreciate it.

I have letters from Kathryn & Irma to answer so here goes.

I am glad you had a nice birthday K. & you had some real entertainment with the kids there. You got very nice gifts I must say.

The kids surely are bad breaking into the school & stealing horns.

The fortress does weigh about 20 tons to b-29 just the plane weighs about 35 I cannot tell you exactly without auxiliary equipments add about 5 tons its gear load about 8 tons maybe more to go over Japan & if so it cannot take its 18 tons of bombs so you can see for yourself there figures are a secret more or less so use your judgment about giving them out just say about 60 tons is correct for all that auxiliary equipment is very sensitive.

Hey this envelope & paper really saves paper but how about numbering your pages to bad about George Sourthorn.

So Long

Love John