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three and we would dress hurriedly to rush down to the unit to land an airplane  - all this has served to accentuate the apparant of the present. There seems to be little doubt that with the advent of the fall season and the change in weather we will once again experience weather similar to last spring but fall is still a long way off and a life of inactivity until then is not pleasant to contemplate.

It is almost comical, in a tragic way, how easily we have forgotton the miseries of the ship, the long climb down the rope ladder into the landing barge, D ration bars, foxholes, death all around. Yet I am actuall looking forward to another invasion. And this one promises to be on a much larger scale than the Iwo landing. There isn't much remaining - China coast or perhaps the main islands of Japan itself. Better than to sit here foregotton, lost in the shuffle. It becomes increasingly apparant that we are not going back to the Mariannas or Hawaii or the States. Why not go on then? Anyway, all that Maple Field will handle are fighters - all others will land at Walnut. Since there is no indication of moving to the latter airstrip there will be little enough work to do even if the weather turns bad.