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Burton Jay Smith and Willametta Turnepseed letters, January-May, 1943
1943-04-16 Page 2
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2 much, much tougher and rougher than what we have had. The schedule is 5 a.m. to 11 p.m. He mentioned incidentally that we would be lucky to get off a letter a week.... That we might as well tell our girl friends or wives so now. We'll also be on extended flights from our bases.... may be gone for several days at a time. The main thing everyone wanted to know was where we are going. He claimed he didn't know and I rather think he doesn't. Rumors, all with more or less foundation, are passing the round. These rumors are based on all sorts of points - deduction, chance remarks of staff officers, previous experience of other cadets. We call them latrino-grams. The story is that these latrino-grams float around and around and
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2 much, much tougher and rougher than what we have had. The schedule is 5 a.m. to 11 p.m. He mentioned incidentally that we would be lucky to get off a letter a week.... That we might as well tell our girl friends or wives so now. We'll also be on extended flights from our bases.... may be gone for several days at a time. The main thing everyone wanted to know was where we are going. He claimed he didn't know and I rather think he doesn't. Rumors, all with more or less foundation, are passing the round. These rumors are based on all sorts of points - deduction, chance remarks of staff officers, previous experience of other cadets. We call them latrino-grams. The story is that these latrino-grams float around and around and
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