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working the first PPI scope. I like it better this way - it gives me more to do during operations. The radar man's work is done mostly before and after operations. At that time he fires up the set, starts the generators, adjusting the right channels of communications, setting voltages, tuning the radar etc. During operations he mostly stands around to make sure everything is going alright and everything in working order. Now in addition to those duties I handle the 1st PPI scope. Makes time go faster. God knows it has gone slowly enough since the weather broke at the end of May and weren't needed for tactical operations. Not that I'd like to do it all over again. Hell no! The memory of the sleepless nights and the endless days, of dodging B-29's you can't see because of the fog - the frantic calls for aid from [[crossed out]]the[[//crossed out]] plane after plane with wounded aboard and running out of ags- all this is still fresh in my mind and I want no part of it. I'M afraid we'll be here for fall and the possible return of bad weather. I suppose I8m a coward but last night I had a dream in which I saw a B-29 coming right at me and I was unable to get away. It was a reenactment of a once forgottonexperience during "those days". I awoke trembling like a leaf.

Some members of a link trainer outfit

Transcription Notes:
I have noticed several times that "I've" is written "I8ve." Not sure how that happens unless on army-issue typewriters eight and apostrophe were on the same key?