Was going through my fathers v mail during the war. We compiled all of them into two volumes. The letters in June and July were filled with comments preparing his parents and girlfriend (later to be my mom). Reassuring them that before he would be sent to the Pacific he would probably get a furlough since he had been overseas since Nov of ‘42.
One of the criticisms of the Pearl Harbor movie from the early 2000’s I had heard was that it was extremely rare for any soldier to switch theatres (from European to Pacific, say).
It sounds like Tibbets was one of the few that did.