The next day, May 11, 1944, we were not scheduled for a mission...agood thing because Bruce and I were in poor shape. Some of the otherpilots had been shipping their foot lockers home with all their extrabelongings. They would go to Fort Levenworth, Kansas and be keptthere until our return. I filled mine up with a complete sheepskinleather flying suit including the boots, a pair of English flyinggoggles which were somewhat different from ours, a pair of warm Englishsilk flying gloves that came up nearly to the elbow my Jungle kitwith the machete knife, all my extra clothing and the undevelopedrolls of film I had taken in England were also included. I had somany good items in there and was looking forward to having them afterthe war. About 4 pm we carted them off to the base Post 0ffice tofill out the papers and pay for the shipping.

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