Started school - lectures, interersting. No mail today. Swiped peat at nite - no pay. Still happy. Oh Boy, Oh Boy - Do I love my little gal! Yeh man.

School getting quite interesting. Corned beef and cabbage for chow. No mail, no pay. Still happy. Wrote a cockeyed letter to Mrs. Morris - cockeyed.

Nothing new - no mail, no pay. "Spark" Adams says to give his regards to little Peggy Curtis if we ever see her in Norich, Eng. Saw several good training movies.

Today for the first time since I have been in this bad area I have taken cold. Not too bad, just irritating. Had 2 tests today. Got 90 in Aircraft Rec. and did quite well in Intelligence. I sure wish I could get some more mail from Adele or from anyone. I'm not particular anymore.

1 air mail letter from Adele written March 2nd. No pay yet - expect per diem tomorrow nite.

Drew per diem of $131.75 for almost 19 days. Tonite I picked up my blouse and pants which were pressed (supposedly) and wrote and air mail letter and a V-mail letter to Adele to check the speed of the two types.

Friday - Went to Belfast for Seder services. Went to Morris Solomon, Evelyn (wife), Mervin - 688 Antrim Rd. Had real Seder with all the trimmings. Stayed in Belfast 8th and left April 9 on the 5:00 PM train - everything OK. Went to Giants Causeway and into some Canes. In the morning (today) we went (Barry Brook) to visit Carrickfergus Castle - outside of Belfast. Swell time had by all. Received 7 letters when I got back.

Washed back a class today. Expect to get held back several days. Bought linens from PX officer George Lemberger - 2 tablecloths - 12 hankies. Bought hankies, sox, shoes, gloves from Mobile PX unit.

Left this AM at 9:30 for Cookstown and train to boat at Larne. Left on boat at 2:00 for Stranraer Harbour where we arrived at 4:30. We all had to unload our baggage so in the confusion of things I figured out how to unload our baggage. I found a long rope anchored to the side of the ship and I tied the rope to each piece of baggage and lowered it over the side to a couple of our men who untied it. We did our complete job in a hurry. A captain tried to stop me but I argued him out of it. Right now we are in the same barracks that we spent that horrible, unforgettable night a few weeks ago. We just ate supper and now at 8:40 PM we are waiting to get on the train.

Changed trains at 3:00 AM at Carlisle, Scotland. Changed again at 7:45 AM at New Castle. Had off until 11:30, went to town for breakfast and lost my gloves, damn it. Arrived at York at 2:15, changed, picked up junky lunches. Riding now, as you can see. Stopped for a while at Lincoln - big town, lots of action, lots of people. Arrived at Attleborough at about 10:30 PM. Loaded baggage on trucks and rode out to camp. Arriving well after eleven. 4 of us put up in what they call "the barn" - and it sure is. After carting all our luggage into our barn we went to the consolidated mess (officers and enlisted men) and what a mess. Here we learned that Bob Dooley & crew went down in Switzerland. Went to bed around 1:30 AM.

Got up about 10:30 - formations of 17's and 24's making much noise. Went to Officer's Club and shaved and then ate. Saw Major Jimmy Stewart, Meistrich, Evans, etc. Were issued bicycles today.

Alerted to fly calibration mission but no fly because of weather. Censored mail.

Met Coffenberry from Hondo - was all set to fly with him this afternoon but no go on account of the weather so we rode around camp all afternoon. In the morning we had a chat with Lt. Colonel Potts on C.O. Tonite I went to a French class for beginners. Didn't learn much but had much fun.

No write today for first time in a long time. Flew in afternoon and in evening. Took GEE fixes, etc.

DR problem with Taylor. All afternoon censored mail, that's all. Fixed my bike after Taylor broke it - good fellow me, "sure, go ahead, take it!"

Flew today. Radio compass was out, so we landed. Cleaned pistol for tomorrow's inspection. No mail, hoping!

Flew "Whambarn" lead assembly ship. Shower, shine, shave, feel good. No mail today yet. Signed locator card for mail.

Flew 3 hours this PM - pilotage - radio compass. No mail as yet. Got tin helmet and double rations - 2 Hershey's, 4 Mars bars.

Flew 1 hour. Test hop landing gear creeping down. No mail no nothing.

Test hopped same ship again, same results - creeping landing gear.

Woken at 2 AM to go on Mission #1 to Manneheim Railroad yards. Took off at 5:30 AM with full crew except CP Boles. Traveled about 70 miles into France and turned around because of lost supercharger and engine trouble. Hit twice by light flak. Luckily we turned back as lead navigator has us way south of course and the rest all went directly over Paris and got shot up pretty badly. Came back to field pretty sick. Alerted for tomorrow again. 5 hours.

Mission #2 to Airdrome N.W. of town of Gutersloh. Complete overcast after leaving the Zuider Zee. Dropped bombs on leader at 21,000 ft. Took off at 6:37 AM with full crew. Milk run - little flak, no fighters, back at 11:30. Felt pretty all the way. 5 hours.

Yesterday got 15 pieces of mail and 1 package of linens. Today got 11 more letters. Slept until 10 AM. Supposed to censor mail at 1:00 PM but loaded bombs instead as a quick mission was ordered. Alerted again for tomorrow. Have a slight cold.

3 more letters. Alerted but no mission today. Slept late. Flew about 3 hours in the afternoon formation navigation. Letter from Eli. Alerted again for the AM.

Nothing much.

Mission #3, Noball, St. Pol, France rocket installation. Hit by flak. 22,500 ft., 8 x 1000 lb. bombs, 2000 gas load - 4:05 hrs. 1 air mail letter, 1 V-mail from Adele, 2 Kodakenids, 1 from Uncle Jack.