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Flew in a P-61 this faternoon - j st the pilot and myself. The radar man didn't fly with us - he went to get a haircut. We went up to five thousand feet and went through maneuvers. The pilot feathered and stopped his right engine to show me how a Black Widow could climb and turn on one engine. Just before we landed we buzzed the field coming right down ont the deck about five feet above the runway [[strikethrough]] about [[/strikethrough]] at almost 300 hundred miles per hour. I thought that was fast then.

Over 800 B-29's raided Japan this week. Not only are they telling them which cities they will bomb but also when and with how many.

The 7th Fighter Command became part ofthe 20 Air Force. Several A-26's landed here.

Censorship regulations have now been lifted. We can say we are on Iwo Jima in aour letters home.

Our softball team is finally rounding into shape. We have won our last two games.

Team Fourteen has arrived.

We receive word that the story of [[strikethrough]] our [[/strikethrough]] of the landing ofour first B-29 has been printed in a bulletin and distributed throughout the First Air Force on the East Coast where additional GCA teams are being trained. And because of our work the quota for GCA teams (originally one hundred odd has been tripled) by Washington.