Aldwinckle, Eric, Letter, 2 November 1944

Letter, Eric Aldwinckle.
Description: 
Letter to Harry Somers, Letter II

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Case Study: 
Creative Dialogue Across the Ocean: Eric Aldwinckle’s Letters to Harry Somers
Creator: 
Aldwinckle, Eric
Source: 
letter
Date: 
2 November 1944
Place: London
Collection/Fonds: 
Contributer: 
McMaster University Libraries
Rights: 
Copyright, public domain: McMaster University owns the rights to the archival copy of the digital image in TIFF format. Reproduced with the kind permission of Margaret Bridgman.

Identifier: 
00001607-9
Language: 
eng
Type: 
image
Format: 
jpg
Transcript: 

"Not to mention my nice new writing case, all my shirts, a brand new tunic, shoes, camera, watch, bedroll......"
"Not to mention twenty pilots personal kit"
"Good God!"
"But thats not what we're miserable about"
"What now?"
"We are being demobilised"
"What do you mean"?
"We are being done away with"
"We are being transferred to Tiffies"
"Well don't you like Tiffies"
"I don't mind flinging myself into the atmosphere at the crack of dawn and hurling myself at the Kraut through buckets of flack in a Musty any day in the week, but ask me to pour down behind a rocket sitting on Jerry's gunsights and I say there is no future in it"
"I'm no hero either"