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[[Image: wings and an anchor]]

[[Printed]]
U.S. NAVAL AIR STATION
PATUXENT RIVER, MARYLAND

[[Handwritten]]

AEOS
18 October 1943.

Dear W.G.,

Your warm-hearted and most welcome letter of the 16th is just received.  From it I gather that arrangements about the field protection of monuments may have gone along farther than I had supposed.  My only knowledge about the business was one telephone call from Paul Sachs -- necessarily a guarded conversation on both sides.

I should be happy if the thing goes through and very happy indeed if it turns out that I'm in the job.  If the latter I'm not yet thinking or planning.  We're just launching into an arduous program in the duty I'm now on.  I should regret giving it up, but the one in prospect is my cup of tea.  We shall see what is to be done when the orders come through.  I've been banking on the way that intelligent officers and men would meet the situation, guided by your manual.  Now,