media-378907.jpg FRE 1039 Second Lieutenant Robert L. Mays and Captain William N. Frost, both of the 303rd Bomb Group, play a game in the officers club. Image stamped on reverse: ‘Copyright Current Affairs Ltd.’ [stamp], ‘Passed for Publication 16 Dec 1942. [stamp] and ‘238752.’ [Censor no.] Printed caption on reverse: '35A and 35A. Playing shove ha'penny in the officers club at the British airfield where they are stationed are (standing) 2nd Lt. Robert L. Mays (2nd Pilot) AND (stooping) Captain William N. Fleet (pilot). Both fly in the same Flying Fortress. Lt. Mays, aged 26, lives at 411 West 8th Ave., Cary, Indiana. His parents, Mr. and Mrs. C.F. Mays are at 602 Belleview St., Junta, Colorado, and before the war he worked for the Carnegie Illinois Steel Corp., Gary, Indiana, as a mechanical engineer. He is a graduate of the University of Colorado. Captain Frost, whose home address is 726 N. Kenilworth Ave., Oak Park, Ill. sends best wishes to his parents , Dr and Mrs G.N. Frost, at this address. Educated at Knox College, Galesburg, Ill., he told the canerman that he was having a lot of fun and found, on arriving at the airfield, that a teller at the Oak Park Trust - Mel Kenwall - was serving in the Officers Club. "It's a small world", says Captain Frost.' Handwritten on reverse: '303BG.' Roger Freeman Collection

IWM, Roger Freeman Collection