March 3, 1943



Memorandum for Lt. Rogers---

         Your letter of Feb. 19th. received.  Glade will be
informed of the situation as regards his pay account.  Stanley
and Goodman do not rate any extra money for mess cooking, according
to Lt. Comdr. Hawkins, as they were not sent over to Afognak
as mess cooks, but as a part of the squadron duty section. They
did work in the galley for a while but no record of the dates
they performed such detail was kept, so their own recollection
is all there is to go by.

         As you probably know, Roebuck, Keenen, Hall and I are
now officially in VS-49.  Thorpe is leaving for Dutch as soon
as the weather permits together with two VS-49 pilots who are
ferrying planes to Dutch.  The new set-up should simplify your
bookeeping considerably.  We're sorry to leave your Squadron,
and wish you and all the others the best of luck.  As you doubtless
realize, the former set-up was not entirely satisfactory, as
it caused some confusion concerning the administrative details 
of VS6, and from our standpoint, being on temporary duty away
from our squadron had obvious disadvantages.  Again I would
like to wish you all happy landings, and if I can ever be of
any service to you, here, I hope you will let me know.



                                     R. W. Fletcher, Jr.