TRANSCRIBED FROM THE JONESBORO DAILY TRIBUNE DECEMBER 14, 1918 P. 1
France, Nov. 16, 1918.
My dear Mother:
I was able to get to the front just one week before the armistice was signed, and was scheduled for a flight over the lines on a reconnisance mission the morning before this event but bad weather prevented our plane from leaving the ground. I visited the front lines of both sides in this sector the day after the cessation of hostilities and received a very good impression of the hell our troops were going through right up until the last shot was fired. A further description of what I saw on that trip will have to wait until I come home. As for the homecoming please don’t be to optimistic for at present it looks as if the air service is going to be called upon to do a considerable amount of patrol duty after peace is negotiated, and if I am home before next summer I will have reasons to be satisfied. We are moving about at present and will probably land in Germany before many moons. Haven’t much to write at this time on account of our living quarters being in an enassembled condition and the weather touched about 10 above zero last night. We hope to be in more comfortable quarters soon. Tell Kenneth I am going to bring him a German helmet and a rifle with bayonet.
With love to all the family,
MALCOM
168th Aero Squadron, A. E. F.
NOTES: Lieutenant Malcom Davis of Jonesboro was writing to his parents Mr. and Mrs. Charles H. Davis. He was born January 1891. He died 1973 and is buried in the City Cemetery, Jonesboro, Arkansas.
TRANSCRIBED BY CAROLYN YANCEY KENT.
France, Nov. 16, 1918.
My dear Mother:
I was able to get to the front just one week before the armistice was signed, and was scheduled for a flight over the lines on a reconnisance mission the morning before this event but bad weather prevented our plane from leaving the ground. I visited the front lines of both sides in this sector the day after the cessation of hostilities and received a very good impression of the hell our troops were going through right up until the last shot was fired. A further description of what I saw on that trip will have to wait until I come home. As for the homecoming please don’t be to optimistic for at present it looks as if the air service is going to be called upon to do a considerable amount of patrol duty after peace is negotiated, and if I am home before next summer I will have reasons to be satisfied. We are moving about at present and will probably land in Germany before many moons. Haven’t much to write at this time on account of our living quarters being in an enassembled condition and the weather touched about 10 above zero last night. We hope to be in more comfortable quarters soon. Tell Kenneth I am going to bring him a German helmet and a rifle with bayonet.
With love to all the family,
MALCOM
168th Aero Squadron, A. E. F.
NOTES: Lieutenant Malcom Davis of Jonesboro was writing to his parents Mr. and Mrs. Charles H. Davis. He was born January 1891. He died 1973 and is buried in the City Cemetery, Jonesboro, Arkansas.
TRANSCRIBED BY CAROLYN YANCEY KENT.