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postcard of Edinburgh castle from Sgt. Lawrence Hon. Mailed to CLH in Hennessey, Okla.

Response to claim of property damage from plane crash of Dec. 21, 1943.
"The War Department is not authorized to compensate military personnel for damage to or loss or destruction of personal property merely because it is damaged, lost or destroyed…

"On 22 December your son, Captain Charles L. Hobbs, was removed from the seriously ill list."

Kathleen Cain Hobbs describes drive back from New Jersey to Hennessey, OK. Mentions pulling trailer and her son, Michael Hobbs. Postmarked East Canton, OH

From Kathleen Cain Hobbs, one month after wedding, New York postmark

Description of shipping insurance, discussion of Kelley overseas.

CLH is personnel coordinator, although he still flies. Address is "4151 AAF B.U. Red Bank, NJ." Three days before wedding.

upcoming wedding is planned for Kelley Hobbs's birthday

"Electronics Lab"; works with "ground specialists in electronics and they don't exactly need me in their organization"; making up lists of spare parts for radios; mentions Winogene Stewart Kenshalo and her first husband, Johnny.

Billeted in a country club; stationary is "Hotel Phelan, Delphos, OH"