{"id":837,"date":"2017-10-25T17:46:42","date_gmt":"2017-10-25T17:46:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/cartmell\/?page_id=837"},"modified":"2018-10-01T18:23:37","modified_gmt":"2018-10-01T18:23:37","slug":"47-november-15-1943-phoenix-arizona","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/cartmell\/letters\/chapter-9-primary-flight-training-october-to-november-1943\/47-november-15-1943-phoenix-arizona\/","title":{"rendered":"November 15, 1943, Phoenix, Arizona"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\r\n Tom has the flu. He describes his flying instructor, John “Long John” Harbin and his relationship with him.\r\n <\/div>\r\n <\/div>\n
\"November<\/a>
November 15, 1943, Page 1<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Sun. night.<\/p>\n

Dear Folks,<\/p>\n

Well not many more weeks of primary<\/a> 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.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

\"November<\/a>
November 15, 1943, Page 2<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Flying is coming along pretty well and Long John<\/a> 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.<\/p>\n

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\"John<\/a>
John Hardin (“Long John”, third from left) with his student pilots (Tom Cartmell is fifth from left)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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.<\/p>\n

I received the brownies and they were really swell. They really tasted fresh and didn’t have time to spoil. Thanks alot for them.<\/p>\n

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<\/a> address:<\/p>\n

Ens. Steve Hempelman
\nAdvanced Amphibious Training Base
\nNavy 414, c\/o Fleet Post Office
\nNew York City<\/p>\n

Give Karen a kiss for me. Goodnight –<\/p>\n

With love,<\/p>\n

Tom<\/p>\n

\"November<\/a>
November 15, 1943, Phoenix, Arizona<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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 … Continue reading November 15, 1943, Phoenix, Arizona<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":3205,"menu_order":4700,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-837","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","category-tom-cartmell-to-elaine-and-stanley-hughey"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/cartmell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/837","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/cartmell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/cartmell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/cartmell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/cartmell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=837"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/cartmell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/837\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3197,"href":"https:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/cartmell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/837\/revisions\/3197"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/cartmell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3205"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/cartmell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=837"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/cartmell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=837"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/cartmell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=837"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}