Maxwell's Letters Home

EDITOR’S NOTE: Two letters were written and sent home by Winfred on November 12, 1943; one to the Folks and one to his sister Margaret. Nov. 3, 1943 (1)               0740      WF         March Field, CA Winfred writes to the folks. He has not received any mail for the past 4 or 5 days. He no longer gets a daily letter from his girl. They ‘ve been flying every day for a week; went on a search mission for a lost plane that went down; the radio operator did not tell them the location.  Went on a cross country hop; flew over Boulder Dam; next going on a practice gunnery mission over the Pacific; says he is pretty well set on going across soon.

EDITOR’S NOTE: Two letters were written and sent home to the Folks on October 31, 1943; one by Winfred and one by Clifford. Oct. 31, 1943 (1)              0720      WF         March Field, CA               No Env Winfred is over his cold now but is still busy. He thinks Clifford is on his way home now, but thinks he, himself, will not be getting off any time soon. Winfred begins Phase 3 training tomorrow. The pilot says he will get him a Sergeant rating. Winfred sez to say ‘hi’ to his brother, is going to get some chow, and has sent two letters home for his friends.

Oct. 29, 1943                    0710      WF         March Field, CA               No Env Winfred apologizes to the folks for not writing much lately, he has been busy flying and going to school. He is getting better at his marksmanship. He thanks them for their financial aid, guesses that Cliff is at home now and wishes he could be there.

Oct. 24, 1943                    0680      WF         March Field, CA Winfred writes his folks that he has been sick this past week but worked anyways because there are not enough radio operators. He does not know if he will get a furlough but could not afford it if he did.  But he wants to get home so bad that he might even steal the money to get there!