Mission #37 to Toulon, France. Harbor installations and submarine pens. Flew for hours at high altitude. Got to target which was completely covered by clouds. So we dropped our bombs in the blue sea and came all the way back high. Carried 10 x 500 GPs all to no avail. Slight flak at target. Got hole in #2 engine. No fighters. Good P-38 escort. Total time 7:50, oxygen 5˝ hours.

Finally got 8 letters, 3 from Adele, 2 from Mom and Evie, K. Klass, Uncle Lee and V-Mail from Mom. Yippie. Sure is good news.

Alerted again for tomorrow. Flew 74 - Old Crone. Temp. -28°. Brrr.