World War II Letters
1943-1944
UWM Manuscript Collection 140
.6 cubic ft. (2 boxes)
UW-Milwaukee Libraries, Archives / Milwaukee Area Research Ctr.
(Map)
This collection consists of 196 letters written by a Milwaukee
native and private (later corporal) in the United States Army during World War II. Addressed
to his wife, the soldier's correspondence begins in May 1943 during his basic training,
continues through his deployment to Great Britain and removal to military hospital in New
York. The correspondence concludes with a letter from an Iowan medical facility, where he
was reunited with his wife. The letters describe army life and conditions, the soldier's
longing for his wife and home, the wife's activities in Milwaukee, and the husband's
venereal disease.
English
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