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Nile Kinnick and Nile Kinnick Sr. letters to William C. Stuart, 1941-1983
1943-01-05: Page 01
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Tuesday Jan. 5, 1943 Dear Will, Your letter written on Nov. 29th just today reached me. It was correctly addressed and should have reached me before I left Jax, but for some reason or another it didn't. Much has happened since last I saw you. Contrary to expectations I didn't get out to sea in five or six weeks as I had every reason to believe at the time. Shortly after reporting to the advanced carrier training group in Norfolk the whole unit was transferred to Jacksonville. For two months I got concentrated training in gunnery, combat tactics, and field carrier landings. All work was done in a Grumman Wildcat, a mighty fine little ship. Profited more in these two months than in all the previous training. Hobbs was with me both at Norfolk and Jax which made it nice for both of us. I presume Leck told you of Stevie and Geo. Hill. Just about expired when I saw the latter in his cadet uniform. We did have a good time that night. Wish you could have been on hand. From Jax I was sent to Norfolk for carrier qualification. "To qualify" means to make a certain number of satisfactory landings on a ship thus proving you are
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Tuesday Jan. 5, 1943 Dear Will, Your letter written on Nov. 29th just today reached me. It was correctly addressed and should have reached me before I left Jax, but for some reason or another it didn't. Much has happened since last I saw you. Contrary to expectations I didn't get out to sea in five or six weeks as I had every reason to believe at the time. Shortly after reporting to the advanced carrier training group in Norfolk the whole unit was transferred to Jacksonville. For two months I got concentrated training in gunnery, combat tactics, and field carrier landings. All work was done in a Grumman Wildcat, a mighty fine little ship. Profited more in these two months than in all the previous training. Hobbs was with me both at Norfolk and Jax which made it nice for both of us. I presume Leck told you of Stevie and Geo. Hill. Just about expired when I saw the latter in his cadet uniform. We did have a good time that night. Wish you could have been on hand. From Jax I was sent to Norfolk for carrier qualification. "To qualify" means to make a certain number of satisfactory landings on a ship thus proving you are
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