NAVAL FLIGHT PREPARATORY SCHOOL
WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY
MIDDLETOWN, CONNECTICUT

June 8, 1943

Dear Bryant Service Club:

I received your kind and generous gift of cigarettes. Thanks very much.

I’ve been stationed here since the first of March but I graduated yesterday and I expect to leave for my next stage of flight training in the near future.

We’re kept pretty busy up here with studies, drill, and physical exercise but I manage to get out on weekends.

I imagine quite a few of the boys who were there when I went to school are in the armed services.

I get letters from a few of the boys now and then. From Leo Blais, George Dion, and Edward Pagliarini.

I though [sic] I was working hard when I was attending Bryant. But Bryant’s course of studies compared to this one is a Sunday school picnic. I’ve taken mathematics from simple addition + subtraction up through algebra geometry and physics. We have navigation, recognition of aircraft at 1/75 of a second, communications, which includes Morse code at 12 words a minute, blinker code at 10 and Semaphore at 8. Also Principles of Flight, Aerology [sic], Aircraft Engines, and to top that off we have military drill and physical training.

This makes a very complete day in any man’s life.

But we are lucky. We get weekend liberty and it is only 95 minutes to where I live from here and I manage to get home on weekends.

Let me thank you again for the cigarettes. It’s a very fine thin your [sic] doing and I know they must appreciate it as I do. I do appreciate it or I wouldn’t be writing this letter, as I have very little time to myself. Thanks again.

Sincerely yours
Dennis Malloy
Av. Cadet U.S.N.R.

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NAVY
U. S. NAVAL AVIATION

Sept 1, 1943

Dear Bryant Service Club:

I just received your very welcome letter with the addresses of my former college friends who are in the service. I was, however, very sorry and somewhat puzzled to hear that you had not received a letter form me as I did send one, but let me thank you again for your kind and generous gift.

I have been transferred to another base since I last heard form you. I am now stationed at Amherst Air station. I’m getting flying time in now. I have 14 hours solo and 26 dual. I am due to leave here for Chapel Hill in another month but before I do I may get a leave. If I do I shall thank you in person.

I received a yearbook from the college and I was only wishing that I had been able to graduate also.

A college degree is not only good after the war but it helps a great deal in the service.

I saw Lt. Shors picture in it. Perhaps, I shall get a change to see him sometime.

I am taking my final examinations in aerology [sic], navigation, communications, air craft engines and air craft recognition tomorrow and the next day.

We fly up here seven days a week and we have night classes every night except Sunday. During the day we have Physical training and military training so you can see I have very little time to myself.

I must end now and get back to the books. Thanks again for everything.

Yours sincerely
Dennis Malloy

My address is:

Av. Cadet Dennis Malloy U.S.N.R.
C.A.A. W.T.S.
U.S.N. Training Station
Amherst, Mass.

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