Arnold's Story: July 12, 1944

This discharge certificate shows Arnold discharged as an Aviation Cadet of the 3510th Army Air Force Base Unit, Section E (Yale University). The next day he enters officer training as a second lieutenant at Harvard.

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Arnold's Story: July 24, 1944

Arnold has recently received his commission in the Army Air Forces in Technical Training for radar and now moves on from Yale to Harvard for officer training.

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Arnold's Story: May 8, 1944

V-mail from Don M. Stadt in New Guinea awaiting deployment to Arnold in Army Air Forces Technical Training at Yale University:

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Arnold's Story: April 28, 1944

A letter from Charles Cutler to Arnie, still training in the Army Air Force at Yale University:

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Arnold's Story: April 8, 1944

Roger L. Strem wrote to Arnie from Seymour Johnson Field (now Seymour Johnson Air Force Base) near Fort Worth, Texas, asking for assistance in paying for a pair of shoes he forget to pay for. J Press Men's Clothing had been on York Street in New Haven,  Connecticut, since 1902 and after leaving the York Street location between 2013 and 2019, is back at that location today.

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Arnold's Story: April 7, 1944 Good Friday

Hazel Nevis writes from Glendale to her son Arnie at Yale University in Army Air Force Technical Training Command. Arnie was infamous in our family lore for his standing up to his father at age 16 about not going into the family business — Bill Nevis ran an accounting company and a side business of printing, and he expected his sons to join the company, which Leonard later did. Here we see that he had decided to become a Presbyterian minister after the war.

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Arnold's Story: April 7, 1944 Pickrell

Caltech classmate Don Pickrell writes from Camp Crowder, Missouri, to Arnie at Yale University. Don is in the signal corps. 

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Arnold's Story: March 26, 1944

A V-mail letter from Arnie's first cousin, Leslie Hastings Wolfe, Jr. (on his mother's side). Sgt. Les Wolfe was a tail-gunner in Italy during World War II. The letter was posted on March 26, 1944, but mailed to Arnie's former North Carolina address and then forwarded up to Yale University, where Arnie received it at the end of April. (Cousin Les died in August 3 of that year on his return to the U.S., when the plane he was taking crashed on takeoff from Miami.)

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Arnold's Story: March 23, 1944

Ralph Winger wrote from Pasadena with news about classmates and his Cal Tech commencement. We learn that Arnie recently had the mumps.

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