Letters From War Wednesday: World War II – Harold Jacoby
December 28, 2011
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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 tired of telling the same thing over and over.
“We have been having unusually nice weather this summer, or so I have been informed. I don’t know much about the weather at this station during the summer months. However, during the winter it really gets fierce.
“I went down to the theatre the other night to see a play that the USO troop was putting on. It was ‘Doughgirls’ and I really enjoyed it. Of course, the girls weren’t ‘Miss Americans,’ but they were women and they put the play over real well.”