This page from the 1943 'Preflight' Class 44-F booklet continues a comic account of barracks life at Maxwell Field, illustrated with a pen-and-ink cartoon by Brad Lang. The narrative shifts from horseplay to a reflective note on wartime purpose, closing with the observation that no combat pilot was ever called 'eager' for carefully checking his own aircraft before flight -- a fitting sentiment for cadets bound for units like the 345th Bomb Group. Project: 218167