[mware]

Interesting they are talking about the letters home. After dad died we put together two volumes of the V-mail he sent home. Hardly any of them spoke of the discomfort. He talked about the weather alot and the guys in his unit. Talked alot about food and the care packaged they sent him too.

They shared the packages from home especially the food. Yum-Yum cakes held up pretty good as well as white potato fudge.

[STONEWALLS]

“After dad died we put together two volumes of the V-mail he sent home.”

we have done the same thing with my Dad’s letters from the S. Pacific....they were forbidden from saying where they were however....from the combat patch on his Eisenhouer jacket I learned his outfit....from there I can match the dates on his letters with his unit history....thus I can read the letters and follow on the map as they hopped from island to island.....may I suggest as a tool:

“Finding Your Father’s War” by Jonathan Gawne published by Casemate Publishing 2006....”a practical guide to researching and understanding service in the WWII US Army”