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last Sunday for Otay Mesa where
I flew three days one mile from Mexico.
This is an advanced field and we had
great short doing thousand foot spirals
to a spot directly below. Now I am here
in the worst hole in the world. I spent
yesterday at Mission Inn, a very beautiful
spot in this fearful heat.

That heart business is the bunk.
The flight surgeon told me I ought not to fly
and to report the next day for a final ex-
amination. But that same evening we were
all ordered off to this place. I asked the
big guns what to do and they said
go to March Field and finish the
examination here. I was not told to