Dear Mom and Pop

Well I haven't written in some time so it's about time I did, eh? Haven't been getting any mail lately from home. I got one of yours today Pa and one from Aunt Elsie and Sonny and Uncle Ray. Haven't been flying much lately so there's no real news. But today wa a big day - we got our duffel bags. It was just like getting a package from home. Now I've got some wool sox and another towel and lots of hand towels, my flight jacket and another pair of shoes. I was waiting for the flight jacket most of all. It sure took long enough to get here.

Well, we have a new setup here now. I'll try explain it. The old way you had to have 50 missions before you went home. When you went on a long mission or a rough one where they had lots of flack you got credit for two missions when really it was only one sortie. A sortie is a flight or going over the target. Well, now that all the missions are rough and long there is no long such a thing as a double mission. Now you have to have 35 sorties or 35 times over the target before you come home. And when they changed they cancelled all the old double missions you had so to date I have 14 sorties or missions which leaves me 21 to go. Now, did you follow that or was it too complicated? It wasn't so bad for us since we only had three or four doubles before they stopped counting them. In the end, it will come out a about the same anyway, so it's OK.

What's Robin doing by now? Has he moved yet and what is he doing in Florida? He's getting to see the country too. Well, no more for tonight. The latest roomer is that we won't get to go to Cairo.

Love, Rae