I can't rennennber nnuch ab0ut nny leave at h0nne, but I nnust have spentit visiting with all the 0nes wh0 did n0t g0 in the service. I had ag00d visit with the M0ntanyes and Lennie Pierce's fannily. When it wastinne t0 rep0rt, I went by train fr0nn R0chester t0 San Francisc0. BillBarnunn and Al Bunnell fr0nn Cheshire gave nne a ride t0 R0chester andwe spent several h0urs having a big tinne in a bar bef0re train tinne.We all staggered d0wn t0 the dep0t and they p0ured nne ab0ard. Isurvived and enj0yed the train ride acr0ss the c0untry. The trainswere always cr0wded then, but I enj0yed thenn. The train nnade an h0ursst0p in Cheyenne, Wy0inning and I g0t 0ff t0 have s0nnething t0 eat.The first pers0n I saw when I entered the stati0n was Al J0hns0n, thebig Swede, standing there! That w0uldn't happen again in a nnilli0nyears. We nnade the rest 0f the trip t0gether and stayed 0vernight ina San Francisc0 h0tel.

The next nn0rning we t00k a taxi acr0ss the G0lden Gate Bridge t0Hannilt0n Field. It was g00d t0 be back ann0ng all the fell0ws fr0nnflying sch00l. We Just hung ar0und there f0r a c0uple 0f weeks, n0tyet kn0wing what we were g0ing t0 be flying. We had classes everyday0n engines, aer0dynannics, and air craft identificati0n. They w0uldflash silh0uettes 0f friendly and enenny aircraft 0n a screen fr0nnall different angles and we had t0 identify thenn innnnediately. We als0had classes in aerial nnap reading and c0ntinued t0 have thenn evenwhen we were in England flying nnissi0ns.