He had girls where ever he went. His
ambition was to dance in all the big ballrooms in the U.S and
England. I think he eventually made all of them. Bruce was from
Kirkville, Missouri and Neil Ullo was from California. Neil had been
an electrician in Pearl Harbor when it was bombed and as soon as he
was able to get back to the States he joined the service. Bruce and
Neil were my closest friends in the days to come and after the war
Lettie and I visited the Bruces in Missouri and after Lynn was born,
we visited the Ullos in California during one trip to Utah. Lynn
stayed with her grandparents in Utah that time.
Now for the trip to Nebraska. We were real characters by now with our
leather jackets, rakish hats and our 45's in our shoulder holsters.
We had to protect these planes from the enemy even in the middle of
the U.S.!! We were to fly by commercial airline to Omaha so we loaded
all our gear into a small army truck and said goodbye to all our
friends. We made the two and a half hour trip to the San Francisco
airport to catch our plane. (It was the only time I ever flew in a
commercial plane.) About four, and a half hours after leaving
Oakland, we finally took off. About two minutes into the flight we
landed at Oakland, across the Bay, on our first stop. There were all
our friends standing there waving at us! We could have gotten on
there and saved half a day of travel but that was the Army's way of
doing everything.
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