10/23/44 Italy
HQ XII AF
To: Honey Chile Stafford
Subject: Virtues of one such addressee
- The following data is submitted for the personal edification of addressee and is to be construed as the official opinion of the undersigned.
- The fuselage of addressee possesses the necessary streamlining for smooth performance and beauty, as well as required gun blisters* for utility. It is hoped a bomb-bay may be appended at a later date.
- Addressee’s undercarriage, possessing a smooth action and grace of movement necessary for smooth landings, is fortunately free of all brakes when in a semi-retracted position with the one and only qualified pilot.
- There is a degree of satisfaction in being permitted to suggest changes in coiffure, and particularly in tearing down same once constructed, far superior to scoring a bull’s-eye on any and all other models.
- Ability of undersigned is admittedly a direction function of peace of mind afforded by above addressee. An even 50% of the spoils are promised as of this date.
- Contrary to due process of law, the undersigned is fully qualified to state that addressee entered contract of marriage for first and only time on June 22, 1940. Any evidence to contrary is so phantastic as to be wholly irrelevant.
- It is hoped by undersigned that the day may arrive when it is possible to pass something pretty for the one and only without unbuttoning the pocket and opening the billfold, but it is realized that so long as something beautiful is not owned by the most beautiful child in the world this can never be true. It is therefore requested that each such item be credited with one very passionate kiss to be delivered at a later date.
- Tu eei la bellissima ragazza del mundo, la migliore moglie degli tutti moglie e madre a la piu passionate amore del’ universea. [You are the beautiful girl of the world, the best wife of all the wife and mother to the most passionate love of the universe]
Cyrus B. Stafford
Major, Air Corps
*Gun blisters are the “bubbles” on the side of the plane where the gunners are positioned.
