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grtfewhmwfeaafeoctetojl p 5 1 c news parade br o ueo a letter for overseas if your husbaad son brother or sweetheart u overseas it u your duty to write biro often tell bun wbat u going oo in the bom- town for that is the new be is mot interested in you say you havent time to wnte so often well here u tome news the boy might bite to read clip it out tend it to him or better still subscribe for the home paper so ihat be can set all the new you wouldnt know the old town now pal thins re mighty quiet on main street es pecially now that there are no more open night on wednesday it quiet in the daytime too half the townfolk are on war work at mallon or long branch or eltewheie there are more lunch boxes being packed just now than ever befote the white collared job are disappearing even your scribe ha to dig in and get all smeared with print er ink three of our boy are in the service and printers devils are scarce but we mutt keep the herald going over there yea we have a dimout here too just a rninature compared to your blackout i guess but it makes u realize a little more just what you boy ale putting up with that we at home may enjoy tome of the comfort of life but we nil cant go so we are doing the next best thing buying victory bond and war saving stamps that you will be better equipped when you come to grips with the enemy there no store windowshopping at night either window light are on the btack list and the street light well they do show a bit after loosing some of their enn- dlepower i hockey prospects are not bright for this wintei either you know most of our boy over there were our sportsmen over here and the golf cou rse you should sec it i think there were sheep there this summer but the hay is pretty tall and i ra not sure the farmer has been on double duty too more wheat for bread more beef for meat but just for the boy in the army we civilians get lit tle meat these days but we dont care theres a big apple crop this year and local cit izens are doing their darnest to get them in for no apples youd have no pie and believe me pal you meet so many strange faces on the streets these days its a changed town you would think the town had been taken over however i suppose industry must be kept on going no matter where the people come from but therere a great lot and there is still plenty of room for you boy when you get bock and we hope its soon its kinda lonesome you know the gasoline rationing has really cut out the cars you can travel for miles on the highway these days without meeting a car we got our a a book today but were not grousing just telling you we can put up with a lot more yet you boys are the only ones making a sacrifice dont worry about christmas pol the post office is literally jammed with girl friends and mothers betting parcels off to you and organizations are busy packing boxes too hope you are home for next christmas we miss you iva ssbesaeoeoe the worlds newt seen through the christian science monitor am faimsfiiaaw ussy 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and ahare in all the spectacular plays but thr are the ii rm to admit that with out the best cftorti of the other mem- ben of the crew their own work wou ld be useless there la a tallend charlie the wtrclcm operatorair jninner or plain air runner he doe the blockina for the team futht off the opposition outaueaaca his oppon ent nnd is scnerally indlnensible and there is the air navigator who calls the ftlsnals acts a boa a aood part of the time and wtepa modestly aside when the kudos is belruj handed around in a bomber reoonnaliikanre squad ron which work hundreds of miles from its boce the navigator 1b prob ably the number one man if any man tn the outfit can bo considered more important than the rest here ls why in the first place the aircraft must reach it objective which in this case might be a hundredsauaremue area of ocean over which a sweep l to be carried out this particular reg ion may be three hundred miles off the coast it is the navigators job to see that the plane sets there by pro viding the pilot with a course which will take into account the constantly chansuiff speed and direction of wind well as atmospheric conditions which might build up ulng on the wing assuming that the patrol area ls re ached without difficulty and that the weep earned out the next task of the navigataor is to get the aircraft 7ou go jtelp sbecide tlmw is mt ouf power for ear wsr industries sad for our iuhum tin no of elwlrltlly in our boats hui b rdttd mutl ukr utoiu um if m la iws oar wsr plaau wortila fall tp vmuu you tut your powr coaiaaijmtoa by mi taut ihsaly aw cwlrour mot mnaf wvajh the dbpartnbnt of munitions and supply mwl4ll c d uoss hlalim