Air graph No 24 Learning to play chess & Mt Vesuvius erupts

 Airgraph No 24

AUST. No 34171 

LAC Cooney, JF 

No. 3 Squadron 

R.A.A.F.,  

Cent. Medit. Forces 

12^thApril ‘44

Dear Mum,

                  I received another airgraph from you to-day dated 23/3/44. Some sea-mail arrived also but it evidently wasn’t my turn because I didn’t receive any of it. Maybe some more will turn up to-morrow. Some parcels are due.

Speaking of parcels, I have one ready to send Dad. Will put it into the post office to-morrow & get it away. I made the tin for it myself & soldered it up all round so open it up with a tin opener round where I’ve marked it.

    Bob Jay & Ken Jacobs, the writers of the letters in the W. Weekly are both from here. Ken Jacobs was posted from here to 450 squadron about a week ago. 

   

     Mt. Ves (ie Vesuvius)certainly kicked up a fuss for a while. Ashes from it were landing over on this side of Italy which is about a hundred miles from the place. Some of the boys from here were on leave in Sorento when it all happened. They said it was a great sight. 

    I have been learning to play chess the last couple of weeks & each night we sit for hours on end playing.

The weather has been much better of late which of course means more flying & so more work for us, which is not bad because the business of sitting around all day with nothing to do is very monotonous.

No more now. Love to all at home.                                    Lovingly Yours

                                                                                                                              Frank