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Nile Kinnick correspondence, September-November 1942

1942-11-28: Page 02

always been rather hard for me and ship recognition even worse. It would seem that visual differentiation and memory were not among my strong points. Similarly I am not as precisely aware of the land through which I drive or the territory over which I fly as I should be. In short I should be more keenly observing of things, around me, particularly of those in which my immediate interest doesn't center. I believe I should be less of an introvert and toward that end I shall strive. At 10:30 we have athletics. Whether we play touch football or struggle through the obstacle race depends upon who is in charge. The former is a lot of fun for most of us, and the latter is a pain in the neck to all. At 12 oclock we go to lunch which is sometimes good but more often not very satisfactory. We muster in the hangar at 12:30, scan the flight schedule, and by one oclock have gotten into our flight gear and are ready to take off. We who are still in gunnery, rendezvous above the field and fly formation to St. Augustine where we peel off and land. After loading the guns one of the boys takes off with the sock, and the rest of us fly echelon above and off to one side ready to make our runs. Only the two in board guns are used, thirty rounds to each gun which we try to fire in bursts of 5 to ten. The sock is 30 inches in diameter and 19 ft long towed at the end of a 900 ft rope.

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always been rather hard for me and ship recognition even worse. It would seem that visual differentiation and memory were not among my strong points. Similarly I am not as precisely aware of the land through which I drive or the territory over which I fly as I should be. In short I should be more keenly observing of things, around me, particularly of those in which my immediate interest doesn't center. I believe I should be less of an introvert and toward that end I shall strive. At 10:30 we have athletics. Whether we play touch football or struggle through the obstacle race depends upon who is in charge. The former is a lot of fun for most of us, and the latter is a pain in the neck to all. At 12 oclock we go to lunch which is sometimes good but more often not very satisfactory. We muster in the hangar at 12:30, scan the flight schedule, and by one oclock have gotten into our flight gear and are ready to take off. We who are still in gunnery, rendezvous above the field and fly formation to St. Augustine where we peel off and land. After loading the guns one of the boys takes off with the sock, and the rest of us fly echelon above and off to one side ready to make our runs. Only the two in board guns are used, thirty rounds to each gun which we try to fire in bursts of 5 to ten. The sock is 30 inches in diameter and 19 ft long towed at the end of a 900 ft rope.