War Letters
A Great Resource for
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1. Historians
Archive site intended for historical research. Correspondence between soldiers and home form a natural library of first person accounts. All documents are presented in a completely transparent and unbiased way with scanned copies of the original documents.
2. Students
Find heaps of material for that school history project. Write about real people as they struggle through life with the backdrop of a greater conflict Discover how your (great) grandfather and (great) grandmother lived like you never remember them.
3. Veterans
Rekindle the memory with the old phrases and slang of world war two. Possibly find stories and memories of old comrades, friends or perhaps yourself. Read the true hardships of your fellow soldiers in their own words.
4. Authors
This reference site is a great resource for anyone thinking of writing a book, Read the stories of soldiers in their own words. Find the true stories of families as they struggled with their normal lives within in the backdrop of the greater conflict.
This site contains hundreds of true life romantic love stories. Some happy, some sad but all absolutely true and real. Read and see how a relationship blossoms with time and progresses through and after marriage. See also disastrous and sometime funny failed courtships.
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Twelve Sample Letters from
World War One and Two and the American Civil War.
(Updated Weekly)
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We've moved the World War Two section. Go to WW2 Letters.
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Instructions
on how to use this database: Letters are arranged in lots, which
are normally groups of documents to the same recipient(s). Click on the content's page and choose a lot from the
short descriptions provided. Alternatively, click on the site map for a complete list of lots,
letters, their pages and attached photos. Please Enjoy Reading!
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This weeks featured World War 1 account is
An account from an American Expeditary Force in France during world war one. Seventeen letters from Lewis Driscoll of the 1st Recruit Company later the 72nd Artillery Company. Talks of his fiancee Hazel, his sister, his aunts and uncles and other people in Dubuque. Lot contains many interesting photos of colleagues served with and ships served on.
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This weeks featured World War 2 account is
Includes an accounts of the 1st American regiment to enter Paris and 1st tests of Atomic weapons. 60 letters mostly to Maggie Krumpleman of Kentucky from various cousins and brothers stationed at various training and POW camps around the USA. Many brothers and cousins are later stationed abroad. Letters from China, England. France, Belgium and Germany. more
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