Letter from Jim to Gray
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Title
Letter from Jim to Gray
Description
Writes that is not possible to meet and cannot get leave. mentions tetanus shots and clothes coupons. Writes that he has a new pilot as his own was killed recently. Complains of too much training flying. but has done three operations recently to Frankfurt, Berlin and Essen.
Date
1944-03-29
Temporal Coverage
Spatial Coverage
Language
Format
Three photocopied sheets, two page handwritten letter and printed transcript
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Identifier
E[Author]J[Recipient]G440329
Transcription
[Royal Air Force crest]
March 29. 1944
Dear Gray:
Thanks for your letter I’m sorry we can’t manage & meet but that may happen later. I haven’t been able to get any leave lately either.
A little thing like a tetanus shot shouldn’t worry you. I have had 6 in the air force – two of them by mistake last year when the documents were lost I am getting lots of other ways now to pass an evening besides dancing. Can you get coupons for clothes? If not I’ll see what I can do. Probably not much but I can try anyway.
I have a new pilot now as Pete got it at Stuttgart two weeks ago [deleted] on [/deleted] as they say
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here he was “posted by night” I am sorry to lose him. My new one is a squadron leader and a very good pilot and although too keen I guess we will make out all right. To my way of thinking we are doing too much flying. I have flown twenty two times in the last three weeks most of them for practice This is just like a training station with P.T. at 9 in the mornings and so on. I have done three ops in the last week (Frankfurt, Berlin and Essen) No trouble on any of them worth mentioning. I must close now
Lots of luck
Jim
March 29. 1944
Dear Gray:
Thanks for your letter I’m sorry we can’t manage & meet but that may happen later. I haven’t been able to get any leave lately either.
A little thing like a tetanus shot shouldn’t worry you. I have had 6 in the air force – two of them by mistake last year when the documents were lost I am getting lots of other ways now to pass an evening besides dancing. Can you get coupons for clothes? If not I’ll see what I can do. Probably not much but I can try anyway.
I have a new pilot now as Pete got it at Stuttgart two weeks ago [deleted] on [/deleted] as they say
[page break]
here he was “posted by night” I am sorry to lose him. My new one is a squadron leader and a very good pilot and although too keen I guess we will make out all right. To my way of thinking we are doing too much flying. I have flown twenty two times in the last three weeks most of them for practice This is just like a training station with P.T. at 9 in the mornings and so on. I have done three ops in the last week (Frankfurt, Berlin and Essen) No trouble on any of them worth mentioning. I must close now
Lots of luck
Jim
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Citation
“Letter from Jim to Gray,” IBCC Digital Archive, accessed March 20, 2025, https://ibccdigitalarchive.lincoln.ac.uk/omeka/collections/document/10716.
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