This brief note was Dart’s first from his new place in the “real” Navy.  Among all the fresh new recruits at boot camp, Dart and his fellow “washouts” from the V-12 unit at Case seem like worldly old men. Dart immediately finds himself placed in a position of minor authority.

There’s little time for sweet talk in this letter, but he signs it once again with “Yours, with love, Dart.” A new addition, however is the little “dart” he draws beneath his signature.