Nebraska has always been known for
its pheasant hunting so the next day we all got shotguns and sat on
the fenders of his car and drove around all the back roads looking
for birds. I can't remember if we got any or not, but we sure had a
lot of fun.
We discovered that the planes did not have any oxygen so we had to
find some way to get over the Rocky Mountains. We next flew to Ogden,
Utah for fuel and when we landed the brakes failed on one of the
planes. While we waited for it to be fixed, we wanted to get into
town and had to sneak by the guards at the gate as we were not in
uniform. We got through the gate and ran down the road far enough so
they couldn't catch us. We caught a ride into Ogden. We were in a big
department store when we saw the MP's coming after us so we got down
behind the counters and ran all over the store until we lost them. We
were never caught and made it back to the base safely.
I intended to ask Lettie to marry me when we got back to California
and wanted to get down to see Mr. and Mrs. Clark while I was so close
but couldn't get the transportation and didn't have enough time. We
decided that as we had no oxygen in the planes, we could not fly over
the Rockies and would have to fly down one of the valleys south to
Las Vegas then to southern California and up the coast. It would be
several days before the brakes could be fixed on the one plane so we
decided that the three of us would fly on to Las Vegas and wait there
for the other fellow.
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