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Imagine how elated your mother is.
I received the beautiful Fleet air arm Wings. Thanks a million. You really do not know how much I treasure them. Shall wear them on my battle jacket. I still wear your gold navy wings. They are my good luck charm.
Many things have happened since I last saw you. Wrote as much as I could.
As you may know, the WASPs were disbanded Dec. 20th much to our sorrow. The reason for this was politics. All of the primary training programs in the States were discontinued. This threw several thousand civilian pilots out of jobs so they went to Washington and took drastic steps to have us “thrown’ out. They contended we were taking jobs away from then etc. These civilian pilots were offered commissions at the very beginning of the war, but they refused as they preferred (over)