BIB_ID
316831
Accession number
MA 3661.12
Creator
Steinbeck, John, 1902-1968.
Display Date
1942 July 18.
Credit line
Gift of John Steinbeck, 1963.
Description
1 item (2 p.) ; 28.1 cm
Notes
The recipient, Lieutenant General Arnold, was Commanding General, Army Air Forces.
Provenance
Gift of John Steinbeck in 1963.
Summary
Thanking him for his letter of July 13; relating the particular concerns of the gunners in training that related to a lack of rating, the corresponding lack of special pay and the lack of some "distinctive and noticeable insignia of which they could be proud;" relating the larger specific concerns of claustrophobia in the gunners turrets and asking if some engineering design might address that issue; saying he has taken his physical examination and filed an application for a commission in the Air Force.
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