The Silver King's War

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This episode is Part Two of the Silver King's letters, "Dearest Ones," from bomber school at Carlsbad Army Air Base in New Mexico.  He and his war buddy, J. J. Sherry, settle in for the hard work and good times. Stanley's letters follow a weekly pattern which allows time for a thorough, thoughtful update to his family in Birmingham, Alabama.  He's a busy Air Corps cadet who's a long way from home.

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This episode is Part One of The Silver King's letters, "Dearest Ones," from bomber school in Carlsbad, New Mexico.  It's mid-September 1943.  Our hero, Stanley, has reached this destination to earn his gold bars as a bombardier.  It will be four months of intensive, satisfying work.  He's ready to prove his worthiness as a cadet who earns his commission as a bombardier and navigator: Stanley L. Silverfield, Second Lieutenant, United States Army Air Corps.

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This episode is Part Five of the Silver King's letters, "Dearest Ones," from Las Vegas, Nevada.  Stanley graduates from Gunnery School and earns his silver wings.  Then he visits the original Las Vegas strip casinos to refine and burnish his gambling reputation as he prepares for the next hoped-for destination: bomber school, gold bars and his commission as a United States Army Air Corps officer.

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This episode is Part Four of The Silver King's letters, "Dearest Ones," from gunnery school near Las Vegas, Nevada. It's hot, Stanley's working hard, and the end of this intense, difficult training sequence is close. The King is flying practice missions and shooting machine guns to simulate enemy encounters while in the air.

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This episode is Part Three of The Silver King's letters, "Dearest Ones," from gunnery school in the desert outside Las Vegas, Nevada.  It's summer, the weather is often 120 degrees. Gunnery school is a necessary diversion before bomber school and the installation has a swimming pool. The squadron visits the El Rancho Casino and then posts to Indian Springs, forty miles from Las Vegas, for aerial gunnery training.  Stanley relates his joy in flying for the first time since his pilot school washout in April.

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This episode is Part Two of The Silver King's letters, "Dearest Ones," from Las Vegas, Nevada.  Our hero is in gunnery school as he continues the training to earn his gold bars as a bombardier.  He writes of machine guns, weather and gambling at his favorite casinos, including The Last Frontier, on the original Las Vegas strip.

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This episode is Part One of The Silver King's letters, "Dearest Ones,"  from the Air Corps Gunnery School in the Nevada desert.  It's a deep, hot summer and six weeks of work to earn Gunner's Wings.  Stanley and his squad rode a troop train from the Santa Ana Army Air Base to a post seven miles from Las Vegas.  He's ready to do the work to reach Bomber school and attend gambling school on the Las Vegas strip.

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This episode is Part Three of The Silver King's letters, "Dearest Ones," from the Santa Ana Army Air Base in California.  It's been a long, boring, repetitive stretch at a massive installation that was revealed as just a parking spot for Stanley's squadron.  The Army Air Corps moved troops when training space opened for the cadets.

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This episode is Part Two of Stanley's letters, "Dearest Ones," from the Santa Ana Army Air Base in California.  As the weather improves, The Silver King fights the training boredom with thoughts of an open post visit to see the ladies and stars in Hollywood.  He becomes a devotee of the legendary Biltmore Hotel.

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This episode is Part One of The Silver King's letters, "Dearest Ones,"  from Santa Ana Army Air Base in California.  Stanley rode a troop train with his guys across the nation from Nashville to a posting literally down the street from where Glenn L. Martin built his first plane.  Martin built the B-26, the Marauder, that Stanley rode during his war.  Our hero is far from home and lonely.

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