Posts Tagged ‘Letters From War Wednesdays’

Hump day, and time for our weekly feature, Letters From War Wednesdays.  Harold Hastings was drafted by the U.S. Army pre-Pearl Harbor, in October 1941.  He fell in with Company F, 2nd Battalion, 168th Infantry, 34th Infantry Division. In November 1942, Hastings joined 30,000 Allied troops for Operation Torch, the invasion of North Africa.  On [...]

Hump day again.  For this week’s Letters From War Wednesday, let’s go back to World War II.  Burton Wray Matteson served as a medical attendant aboard U.S. Army Transports in the Pacific Theater.  I absolutely love his sense of humor.  This note to his parents comes from the summer of 1944, while Matteson was working [...]

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