Page 4: 1943 February 21 (United States Army letterhead 2 sheets) , 1943

Page 4: 1943 February 21 (United States Army letterhead 2 sheets) “Sunday. Dear Mother, As I wrote you I am stationed in the “Sea Isle” hotel which faces the ocean on Miami Beach This is the largest Air Force command in the country; a soldier told me last night that 80,000 men are stationed here now. This is probably right, however I am in Flight 526 and there are 125 men in a flight. I am probably placed in the Air Corps (now called the Air Forces, I believe, a separate unit from the regular Army) though the interview - or more probably the I.Q. test I did quite well on the latter, but there are many men who came in with us that will probably never even learn to wash down an airplane…. [letter continues with description of Miami Beach, trip on train from Upton, possibility of next posting]