Clarence with his mother Agnes,

#2 AGGTS

MPO #303

RCAF

Trenton, Ontario

15 Jul 43

Dear Rose and All,

Got one of your letters yesterday and one today, so I guess Ill answer them tonight, I couldn't answer last night cause I was on duty watch.

Thank you for the two bucks, I got them today, and we were paid yesterday, for two weeks I was so broke, I couldn't buy cigarettes.

Is Curt gone yet? And don't tell no Jerry affected you that much, why don't you take lessons from your brother. It is a good idea to get engaged, or married (after the war is over) there is nothing on earth that could get me to get married, or engaged until I come back. Suppose he bumped off, it would hurt you a lot less if you didn't have any ties.

I wrote a navigation test tonight, I've got my fingers crossed, we have a signal test tomorrow, and I've got to pass it, as far as signals go. I've passed one test and flunked one so far. I had my night vision test yesterday, and I don't know from anything. A bunch of the boys are going to manning pool on Saturday on account of it. So far I've passed a Vickers machine gun test, had a Browning machine gun test, don't know the results. Passed an anti gas test, I know one mistake in that test, so I got 23 out of a possible 25, 92% not so bad, it was the highest in the class at least.

Signals is the only thing I am really afraid of, I even passed in aircraft recognition, that is one test I got 41 out of a possible 50. In that test we got 50 pictures, for every one right we got one mark, if we mixed an Allied plane with an enemy plane we lost 7 marks, mix two enemy planes, we lost 5, mix 2 Allied planes we lost 2, if you missed a plane 7 marks. One of the boys wound up 20 marks in the hole, it was naturally Roach.

Well it is near bedtime, so I will quit for now, more later.

So long for now,

Love Clair