On this Letters From War Wednesday lets take a look at another note home from Private Bill to his lady friend, Mable, featured in “Dere Mable: Love Letters of a Rookie.” “We get our mess from some fellos what stands behind a counter. One of them divides the coffee. He does it by puttin half [...]
In this edition of Letters From War Wednesday, we feature a short note from Corporal Harold Jacoby, stationed in Alaska. “I feel sort of guilty because I haven’t reported in for so long, but you know how it is,” Jacoby wrote home in July 1944. “There is nothing new to tell and I get so [...]
World War II B-24 bomber pilot, Lt. Bob Gage, certainly had a way with words. In this edition of Letters From War Wednesday, we feature another of his short notes home. Gage penned this letter in June 1944, while stationed in the South Pacific. “It’s getting pretty hot and I guess that Big Blue Ocean, [...]
In this edition of Letters From War Wednesday, we feature a short note from Private Charles E. Moore, who wrote home in October 1942, shortly after his transfer from Camp Grant, Illinois to Fort Lewis, Washington. “Well, here I am away out in Washington and it sure is some swell country. We were 66 hours [...]
This edition of Letters From War Wednesday features a short note from PFC. Raymond Eiseman, who wrote home while on maneuvers out West. “We are now out in the desert, in Arizona,” Eiseman wrote in September 1943, while serving with the 79th Signal Company. “Have been here several days and am ready to leave. I [...]
In this edition of Letters From War Wednesday, we feature a short note from Navy man, Bernard Duesler. “…I’m very proud to be in our armed forces,” Duesler wrote home from training at Camp Moffett, Great Lakes, Illinois in early 1943. “It makes you feel very proud and kinda puffs you up a bit on [...]
No doubt, some of the worst Letters From War imaginable are those sent by our War Department, like the Western Union telegram received by Evelyn Black, mother of infantryman, Dennis Black, serving with the 7th Cavalry in the Vietnam War. “THE SECRETARY OF THE ARMY HAS ASKED ME TO EXPRESS HIS DEEP REGRET THAT YOUR [...]
Ah, the cold is upon us. November always brings that bitter wind and those first hints of winter. But better in your warm house than on picket guard … during the Civil War. This edition of Letters From War Wednesday features a short note home, written 150 years ago this month, from Union soldier, William [...]
In this edition of Letters From War Wednesday, we feature a note home from World War I soldier, Jesse Winebrenner, just prior to he and his brother, Ben’s, departure for the front lines in France. Given that the pair’s brother, Virgil, was killed earlier in the conflict, Jesse is attempting to prepare his mother for [...]
Today on Letters From War Wednesday, we feature a short November 1967 note home from Danny Weber, who served with the 13th Combat Aviation Battalion in Vietnam. “I’m working in a yard at Can Tho, which is located about 115 miles south of Saigon. …I finally got my bags unpacked last night. Now I can [...]