June 30, 1944 – on guard duty
V-Mail 30 June 1944 Letter #17 Good afternoon, ma cherie - We're on the last few hours of a 24 hr...
29 June, 2011
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Author: Mary Anne Erickson
Life in a Foxhole 6-28-44
In this letter, my Dad starts out by saying there's not much to talk about so he'll just fill up...
28 June, 2011
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June 22, 1944 – finally in France
There must be a number of missing letters, as here we are at #14, but finally after all this time...
27 June, 2011
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June 12, 1944 letter to Mary
From what I could originally deduce my Dad landed on Omaha Beach on D Day + 6 which I would...
26 June, 2011
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June 9, 1944 letter
In this letter, my Dad is still waiting to get shipped out and he includes a beautiful description of watching...
25 June, 2011
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June 6, 1944 letter to his father
It hit me like a lightening bolt that my Dad also wrote letters to his father, Frank, who was living...
24 June, 2011
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V-mail letter dated 6 June 1944
I'm feeling myself pulled into history with this fascinating unraveling of my Dad's letters from the war. What I discovered...
23 June, 2011
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Countdown to D Day, letters June 4th and 5th
Letter #7 Dated June 6 -44 (but envelope is stamped June 4, 1944 and V-mail letter #8 is dated June...
22 June, 2011
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Muffler Man
This morning while cruising around Facebook (my fav thing to do in my bathrobe with a cup o’ Joe) I...
16 June, 2011
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Countdown to D Day, V-MAIL Letters 3, 4, and 6
So many people have been touched by the posting of my Dad's letters from the War, that I'm committed to...
15 June, 2011
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