AUS No 34171
LAC Cooney, JF.
No 3 SQUADRON
R.A.A.F. MIDDLE EAST
10th Jan ‘43
Dear Mum,
Haven’t been able to drop you
a few lines for the last five days because we have been working too hard. All
this work was due to the dust storm that I mentioned in my last letters. The dust got into the engines & cockpits
of the kites & we had all the trouble in the world getting it out again
because it was in the most inaccessible places, brakes were seizing & the
electrical systems were continuously short-circuiting.
I can’t understand our mail
situation at all. The last four days we have received seven bags of papers&
parcels from a source that has no right to touch our mail. Yesterday afternoon
one of our drivers was getting some stores from No40 Air stores Park, they gave
him two bags of mail. How the devil they got hold of it no-one can fathom out.
Out of these nine bags I did not receive one parcel but I did receive the
October issue of Man Junior from Betty so will you thank her from me.
Our C.O. received the D.S.O a
couple of days ago but as yet he has not wet the decoration but this maybe due
to the shortage of beer. He received this decoration as an immediate award as
soon as headquarters heard about him picking up one of our pilots under enemy
fire.
We have received word that
Air/Com Williams, one of the big knobs in the RAAF is in the Middle East &
will no doubt be paying us a visit. This probably means that we will all have
to shave & the boys are not at all happy seeing as how they have trained
& cultivated their beards for the last two & a half months. I had all
intentions of having my photo taken with the beard on.
Well, Mum, that’s all for now
but will write aain shortly.
Give my love
to to Dad & Betty & my regards to Leo
Lovingly
Yours,
Frank
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