MELVIN PURVIS served as a lieutenant colonel in
World War II. In this letter, written on two sheets of
USO stationery, he encourages his wife to be strong for
their future baby and worries that the censor is holding
up his mail (and with reason, for during WWII, 10,000
civil servants read and censored a million pieces of mail
weekly). Purvis survived the war and went on to head the
Chicago office of the FBI, bringing several notorious
criminals to justice. Get
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