Posts Tagged ‘Letters From War Wednesdays (LFWW)’

When we think of letters from war, we envision notes from a soldier, home to his family.  But there are also letters, typically from the U.S. War Department, that bear the most awful news, that of a soldier’s, sailor’s or airman’s death.  Notes of a more personal nature, from those who served with the recently [...]

Wednesday so soon?  You better believe it, and time for Letters From War Wednesday. Ah yes, it seems like only yesterday.  Or maybe it was 148 years ago yesterday.  On May 24, 1863, Albion, Indiana infantryman, William Kimmell, penned the following note home to his sweetheart, Leah Crispell.  Kimmell’s unit would soon be chasing Lee’s [...]

In this week’s Letters From War Wednesday, we feature an October 1944 correspondence from U.S. Army  airman, Bob Berkes.  Berkes would later serve over Northern Europe with the 305th Bomb Group as a gunner aboard the B-17 bomber, Forever Amber.  But this note comes from Kingman, Arizona, while Berkes and his crew were still learning [...]

Danny Weber was an All-American boy, starring center stage on his high school basketball and baseball teams. He was drafted by the U.S. Army in 1966. In October 1967, Weber turned 20, and set foot in Vietnam. He would serve down south, refueling aircraft, with the 13th Combat Aviation Battalion. “We just got done having [...]

This week’s Letters From War Wednesdays comes to us from World War II and Lt. Phil Snyder.  Snyder landed at Normandy’s Utah Beach as a platoon leader with the 315th Infantry, 79th Infantry Division. While still fighting on the Cotentin Peninsula, Snyder was wounded on July 3, 1944.  He healed and rehabbed in an English [...]

Hey, I just realized that we’ve got a Falaise Gap / Chambois, France  / World War II theme running this week.  Let’s keep it going. This week’s Letters From War Wednesday is courtesy of Supreme Allied Commander, Dwight Eisenhower.  In August 1944, with combined American, British and Polish forces closing in on the retreating German [...]

Charles Fall served in the American Civil War with the 26th Michigan.  In May 1864, General Grant launched his Overland Campaign.  Opposing armies first clashed at the Battle of the Wilderness, then met outside Spotsylvania Courthouse.  Fall and his 26th Michigan found themselves at the center of it all. On May 12, 1864, at dawn, [...]

Eddie Wells served in Vietnam with the 321st Artillery, 82nd Airborne Division. This July 27, 1968 note home speaks of his time up north. “Well, we finally moved.  We moved way up by the DMZ.  We are on top of a mountain.  There are mountains all around.  The only way anything can be brought into [...]

Lt. Robert McHolland, from Hurley, Missouri,  landed at Utah Beach with the 90th Infantry Division in early June 1944.  His introduction to World War II came quickly, among the infamous hedgerows of Normandy.  He first served as a platoon leader with Company M of the 358th Infantry. Later that summer, McHolland would be promoted to [...]

This Wednesday’s Letter From War comes to us from World War II.  Ed McGinley landed on Normandy’s bloody Omaha Beach on D-Day, June 6, 1944, with the 115th Infantry, 29th Infantry Division. McGinley survived to fight through the hedgerows of Normandy.  He and his unit helped secure St. Lo before heading west. By the time [...]

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