June 2, 1943

Bill and Emily,

Everybody gets enough to eat here. The main trouble is keeping down during acrobatics. So far I haven't been sick up there. It's been more fun getting up there by yourself and trying anything that comes into your head. Yesterday I went into three accidental spins trying to do snap rolls. Spins are practiced enough so that the become second nature to us and we recover without losing out heads. (and necks)

Yesterday I was doing a loop with my instructor in the plane with me. I got it the upside down position oat the top of the loop and felt the plane stalling out in me. "Snap judgement" told me I didn't want to stall upside down so I rolled upright and the top of the loop. He turned around and told me he didn't want a "immelmann" he wanted a loop.

I expect to get my army and civilian 40 hour check tomorrow. At this point I have my fingers crossed. (I just took an hour off for a bull session on flying). We talk, eat and sleep flying. Every night we all lay awake, not because we want to, and fly until 12 o'clock. I never worried about a thing in my life until I started flying, and I'm not the only one, everybody does it. A few more wash out every day. You'll never believe me but I think that's the reason I'm going to church. Yes I'm being a good kid. Here's something that adds to it. "Mami", she's my present honey, has a couple of cars, a "B" and "C" sticker and she rides me around weekends. If I go to church she comes in, sits with me and then brings me home to her house to a real home cooked "Sunday Dinner". After dinner we either go swimming or to the show. In either case it costs me about 75 cents for the whole weekend. Cheap at twice the price, Hey what?

Cheese is scarce. Why do birds have feathers? Is the weather ok up there? Flying, Flying, Flying. I think I'm going nuts.

As ever,

"Worry Wart"