Content Description About 170 letters belonging to August "Auggie" Lourenco, a Portuguese-American of Newark, New Jersey, who served in the United States Army during World War II. Most letters are addressed to his girlfriend-then-wife, Anna "Ann" Lourenco (née Ertman), a second-generation Polish immigrant. Lourenco joined the United States Army in 1943 and completed his basic training at Camp Gordon, Georgia and Nashville, Tennessee, before being sent to Yuma, Arizona for additional training. Lourenco was...

Content Description Carl Stape Worboys, MD (1911-1992), Captain, US Army WWII. 27 letters and VMails from Dr. Worboys to his family, written from Europe between 1943-1945 while he served in the US Army aboard the USS Seminole and USS Acadia, both hospital ships. Dr. Worboys writes about his travel across the Atlantic, weather and conditions in Europe and the Mediterranean, books he has read, church services, and the lack of alcohol to the troops. He states in one letter that some of the men are torn of where...

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Collection of letters from H. L. Sexton to Janet Kurkjian from February 1954 through March 1955 while he was stationed at Fort Lewis, Washington.

Content Description Personal correspondence including a letter from Richard Kidd to "Bonnie and kids" and a citation from the United States Army signed by Lt. Col., AGD, Adjutant General, Mark Amen. Photographs contained in the collection include those that depict soldiers and life during World War II. Postcards of Germany and photographs of the Statue of Liberty circa 1945 are also included. There is an accompanying essay written 2022 April 28 by Sydney Kidd Finneran titled "Propagation for...

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Collection of letters written to his wife, Nellie, a Colonel in the Army, while he traveled across the United States. There are also letters to and from other family members included in this collection.