| Summary: | Jack Hoover, a pilot in the 27th Aero Squadron, First Pursuit Group, was the brother-in-law of Penrose Vass Stout, who was wounded during a dogfight near St. Mihiel on September 28, 1918. In this letter Hoover writes Stout's mother, describing the fight and her son's transfer to the hospital. He reports that Stout has been moved to a facility farther from the front, and he describes a recent visit: "I went to the second hospital expecting to see a pallid half-dead aviator, so imagine my surprise and joy when I saw him looking as well as ever, smoking a cigarette and reading the morning paper, while a Victrola was playing and Red Cross girls serving hot chocolate and giving all the boys candy, chewing gum and cigarettes." Hoover assures her that Stout is recovering well: "He is all right, full of pep, wants to get back at the Boche, cheerful, and the nerviest boy in the world."
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