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5-30-43
Dear Dad:
I’m sorry to have delayed writing so it caused you to worry, but we’ve been “just waiting” for something to happen each day and it doesn't.
We got held up with the pt’s in both Wichita and Dallas but finally got them delivered as I told you in my last letter. I think I forgot to tell you one exciting part.
I was heading into Clarksdale and found the municipal field but no other, and since I saw a cub land I went around and came on in. Swish, clunk. I set down in deep mud and the tail left the ground stood straight up nearly. Boy! I put the brakes on, stick back, and gave it full throttle so as to blow the tail down. That was too close for

Part of [Letter from Dorothy Scott to her father, May 30, 1943]