EDITOR’S NOTE: Below is the first letter Winfred has sent home to the Folks in almost a month.
Aug. 20, 1944(1) 2360 WF Station #114 – Hethel Air Base, UK via New York City, N.Y.
Winfred writes the Folks; acknowledges he has been doing extra poor in writing to them but has so little to write about now; knows he should be back in the States sometime in September; wishes dad could have been there to see Billy Conn exhibition fight; hasn’t heard from Cliff in a long time; enclosing a few photos of around here + the boys – one of Eng. Vogan and himself; and closes.