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.

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.

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