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Sun. night.
Dear Folks,
Well not many more weeks of primary to go, in fact just two more weeks of flying and we will probably leave a few days after that. The rumor has it that we will go to Pecos, Tex.
I think I had the shortest case of the flu ever known. I went on sick call Fri. morning and has aching bones and 101 degrees of fever. They put me to be and gave me some horse pills [6 inches in diameter – diagram]. My fever broke at noon and they let me out Sat. morning in time to fly 3 hrs. Sat. afternoon and then go on our week end pass. I feel fine now and apparently haven’t had any bad effects. When they told me I had the flu I thought sure I would be held back a class because if you miss a couple of days flying you wouldn’t have time to catch up.
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Flying is coming along pretty well and Long John seems to be satisfied. He told us as long as we were flying for him we were doing OK. Even if I do get disgusted with him sometime I still think we have the best instructor at the field. I have a picture of him and the five of us that I am going to send to Dad. It is the only picture we can get so so {sic} maybe Dad can have a couple of extras made and send you one.
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It is really a good picture of Long John including the cigar stub in his mouth. The plane looks like something they used back in the World War I but it is the best training plane they will ever make.
I received the brownies and they were really swell. They really tasted fresh and didn’t have time to spoil. Thanks alot for them.
I seem to have misplaced your last letter so I can’t remember if there were any questions to answer or not. I do remember that you wanted Steve’s address:
Ens. Steve Hempelman
Advanced Amphibious Training Base
Navy 414, c/o Fleet Post Office
New York City
Give Karen a kiss for me. Goodnight –
With love,
Tom
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