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old.
I had another very nice write-up in the paper here.
Do you still like American cigarettes? Remember you liked Chesterfields. Had several cartons returned to me which I had mailed to you from various places in the States when with the WASP.
We have a large number of Italian and German P.W.s here. See them working the base. The boys say that the German prisoners eat nearly a whole loaf of bread with each meal.
It looks like I will be here awhile longer. Dear old “Smokey Hill Army Air Field, Salina, Kansas” –
They are now granting 45-day furloughs to people who are non-essential and who do not have enough