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Ms-031: Letters From Chan Coulter To His Wife And Child, World War Ii, Jaclyn Campbell
Ms-031: Letters From Chan Coulter To His Wife And Child, World War Ii, Jaclyn Campbell
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This collection consists primarily of correspondence from Coulter to his family and is broken up into sections based on correspondence by regular mail, correspondence by V-Mail, the 1985 Reunion of the 37th Division.
Family correspondence consists of a series of letters, written by Coulter, to his wife, Mae, and son, Chan Lowell, during his overseas service in the South Pacific from 1942 until his discharge in 1945. The correspondence includes fatherly advice to his son and talk of normal family business matters to his wife, as well as day-to-day happenings of military life during war. Some letters have been censored …
Ms-032: Letters Of The Toomey Family During World War I, Jaclyn Campbell
Ms-032: Letters Of The Toomey Family During World War I, Jaclyn Campbell
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The Toomey collection is composed primarily of correspondence and is arranged into four sections including letters to Leo Toomey, Joe Toomey, Mary Ellen Toomey, and other miscellaneous correspondence.
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Ms-030: Letters Of Richard Schade (World War Ii), Jaclyn Campbell
Ms-030: Letters Of Richard Schade (World War Ii), Jaclyn Campbell
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Richard Schade was born August 9, 1919 and died January 25, 1997. During World War II, he was stationed in Paterson, New Jersey; Fort Totten, NY; and Camp Stewart, GA throughout the course of these letters. Most of them were written to his wife, Betty, in Camden, NJ. Throughout the course of the letters, Schade rises from the rank of Private to Corporal, and finally to Sergeant.
During his enlistment, Betty became pregnant and delivered a girl in the Spring of 1944. She was named Carol. These letters show that Schade was a very devoted husband and father and are …