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describes visiting Dewitt Hobbs' family

Arrival at message center in Chanute Field.

CLH's sister Barbara Hobbs is named Band Queen at Hennessey High School in Hennessey, Oklahoma. "Tell the queen I'll send her a rose one of these days when I find one." Asks after Margaret Dawson, who is visiting her parents Dee and Grace Dawson in…

CLH gets instrument certification renewed

Describes flight in a B-24 "newer than `the Wolf.'"
The plane CLH flew in active combat was named "The Wild Wolf."

mentions his former crew members Albert Tegnazian and Baker; mentions E.S. Hobbs looking at land to buy along the Cimarron River.

Studying vacuum tubes. Hobbs parents trade Rastus for another mule. Mentions Dewitt Hobbs family in Indiana. Albert Tegnasian in Egypt. Paul Baker, his engineer, is recovering from injuries received in the 1943 plane crash.

made 2nd Lt. in the Army Air Corps Reserve

applying for civilian pilot's license

ration coupons, planning visit home