Dear Sergeant Honey

In January, February, and March of 1945, Scotty traveled with Major Harry A. Franck assisting him and Lt. Porter with the writing of this book.

Enlisted November 16, 1937, at Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. Discharged to enlist in the Air Corps August 25, 1939 at Fort Sill, Oklahoma. Served 7 years, 5 months. Discharged May 23, 1945 after VE Day.

 Air Offensive Europe, Egypt, Libya, Tunisia, Sicily, Naples, Foggia, Rhineland.

Dairy Excerpt,  Sunday, December 19, 1943. Marks Hall. 

Julie and I into Colchester with Paul and Scott, my blind date. In to Cupps with bottle of gin.

Letter home, Saturday, January 8, 1944. Excerpt.

Dear Mother,

Here's a little scoop for you. This is in line with my lifelong policy to let you in on everything I'm doing which is no problem when I'm home because what I don't tell you you just know anyway.

It's simply this. There is a GI here who, in less than a week, smashed the last five years of my life to bits and I'm happy about it. I tried to be skeptical about it, I'm still trying to be sane about it. But I think I know a steamroller when I see one.

It happened on December 19. It's a crazy happy story, the kind of thing you read about but you think can never happen to you. To the best of my memory, it's the first blind date I've ever entered into in all my life.

He's tall, dark, and handsome. Really! He's a screwball but I guess you would know I wouldn't tolerate anything else.  

Letter home, Wednesday, April 26, 1944. Excerpt.

I suppose you'd like the specifications. He's six feet tall and very slender. He has dark hair, almost black, and unruly. Eyes, well, at a casual glance you'd say they're dark, but on close inspection they're blue-gray-hazel. I wouldn't know about this close inspection business myself, someone told me. He's been up and down the scale from private to tech sergeant several times, staff sergeant now. Sound like trouble? Well, I don't know.