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Prospects for a short stay
looked bad from the start. As
soon as we got in we heard
rumors of sending some
of the cadets back to the
States, and especially us
Field Service men back
for ground school. In about
two weeks time after our
arrival a hundred and sixty
two cadets arrived from
Isdon. We then had a
little over eight hundred
cadets on the flying list, and
the most that had been sent
out to flying school in one
month up to that time was
twenty five. All kinds
of rumors floted around.
Cadets going to England to