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Cherry Point, N.C.

9 April 1945

Dear Miss McGlynn: --

The note on the "Salem News Letter" asked what
I was doing -- oh, if I only knew myself. At this
stage of the game, I'm in the process of transferring
one one dept to another. Started out being a
Link Instrument Instructor, teaching radio
navigation -- but at the present moment, I'm
going to school learning the other types of
air navigation i.e celestial and dead reckoning.

With all this training, I should be qualified
to take the CAA exam for Ground Instructors license
which will be a great help in the post war--
provided I wanted to stay in aviation.

Now to go back to navigation -- dead reckoning is
the process of determining how to use known factors.
Say we left an aircraft carrier to bomb some
enemy shiping -- (of course the carrier proceeds
along its course) well, by the use of computans
etc-- we figure how, where, why, & how -- and
to think they will be letting us teach such
stuff -- sometimes it really scares me --
Don't know very much about celestial