Dear Yuuichi:

Your letter of February 28 was received today. I sent you a letter about 5 days ago.

Thank you for the picture. It is one that I enjoy seeing. I do not recall hearing Watanabe being called Watanabe Kempei. However, he did imply that he was connected with the Kempeitai, which was not true according to what you have told me. I did not know that he was at Mitsushima.

I am very sure that Henry Cornellisson was not at Omori. I do not recall his name nor has he been in contact with me. The American EX-POW Association has him listed in their national directory as being in a Kawasaki camp. I have not heard McGrew for about a year.

Your activity with the Suwa project and also with the entertaining the Aussies is highly commendable. I am sure that they appreciate your work.

The proposed trip to Turkey should be very interesting. Four years ago I flew AF to Adana, Turkey, and then by commercial plane to Istanbul. It is a very unusual city. I would like to go back again. A more elderly friend from Austin was with me and he is not as adventureous as I. I would have liked to spend more than four days there. We did take a ferry across the Sea of Marmara to Bandirma and then on a very boring train ride to Izmir. We took a due to see the ruins of Ephesus. He came back home early. I took a day trip by bus to see Bodrum, which I enjoyed, before going back to Adana to catch an AF plane home. Next time I would concentrate on Istanbul and Ankara.

I have no define plans for this year, other than my trip next trip next week to California with my oldest daughter and her two sons. They will visit with her sister while I see my elderly uncle and aunt. We will get together in San Francisco for two days. It is a short trip. I will sign-up for an Air Forece flight, but I will have to wait to see when and where a plane will be going in April or May. Last year I thought of going to Japan, but the need to have some extensive dental work prevented me from going anywhere. Now I will wait to see where the wings of an Air Forece plane may take me. Perhaps- no where.

Your comment about the Sam's and Nakajima's project is most interesting. I would be writing to be a part of it if they are interested.

I am enclosing an Errata page which should be put in your copy of my manuscript. It lists the corrections which should be made. One copy is for Mrs.Endo. Please give her my best regards.

I do hope that you will be able to make it to Texas sometime in the near future.

Sincerely
BOB