Letter from Malcolm Payne to Doris Weeks

Letter from Malcolm Payne to Doris Weeks

Letter from Flight Sergeant Malcolm Payne. He writes of his frustration at cancelled operations.

Two page handwritten letter

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A417512 F/S. Payne M.
R.A.F. Bardney.
[deleted] Wed [/deleted] Tues.
[inserted] (Don’t even know the day) [/inserted]
Darling Pet,
Well I don’t Know what to think – we’ve been mucked around something damnably. Haven’t much time to write you now either, hence the scribble.
Hope you read it O.K.
Sunday night they scrubbed Ops about 7.30 – on Monday night we were out in the Kite and it was scrubbed. [deleted] M [/deleted] No no. – that was Sat & Sun nights. Last night we’d been flying about an hr and were recalled.
Today we flew again
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and tonight were told to be at briefing room for some mysterious meeting. We had – that – not flying tonight – and now there’s bags of work to be done tonight. Wouldn’t it wreck one!
Have been recieving [sic] letters from you O.K. Pet. Sorry I wasn’t in the mess today when you rang.
I love you darling.
Cheerio for now –
All my love Pet
Malcolm XX?
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