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Written by a soldier at Geiger Field, Washington, during World War II, in 1944. He was part of the 807th Engineer Aviation Battalion. From the letter………Can you be ready to be married next month? If my transfer doesn’t go thru I may get a furlough before I leave for over seas. If I did it would be late in the month. How about it?……..Say by the way Brooks’ wife is here and is she a changed woman. She is really nice and keeps after me to have you come up for a week. She and Brooks both send their love. They are really getting along very nicely………

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Written by and Air Cadet, at Dorr Field, Arcadia, Florida, during WWII, in October 1943. He was in training at the Riddle Aeronautical Institute. From the letter….. They’ll be calling you the “Café Society Princess” pretty soon. Whose band are you having this year? When you have your dance think of we cadets in the wilds of Florida who have to use their own orchestra and import (like vegetables) the girls from Miami and Sarasota. We have a swell orchestra, some of them played in name bands, but I doubt that it will compare with yours. So as you listen to your band you can say to yourself, aha, they may have palm trees and alligators, but they don’t have a band to compare with this one……..You know what? You’ve got my little brain going around like the propellers on a P-38 (two different ways at once)……I guess I’d better quit wasting your time and let you do your work. Besides I may fly tomorrow so I’d better go to bed early for a change…….