Graeff, Leonard Eugene, 1920-2016 to Susan Prowell Graeff and Raymond James Graeff

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GLC#
GLC09611.408-View header record
Type
Letters
Date
2 March 1945
Author/Creator
Graeff, Leonard Eugene, 1920-2016
Title
to Susan Prowell Graeff and Raymond James Graeff
Place Written
Hawaii
Pagination
3 p. : envelope
Primary time period
Great Depression and World War II, 1929-1945
Sub-Era
World War II

One letter from Leonard Eugene Graeff to Susan Prowell Graeff and Raymond James Graeff dated March 2, 1945. He mentioned receiving letters from them Lorraine Fencil, Marguerite Graeff, Florence Huber, Robert Winemiller and Dick Miller. Dick, Robert Winemiller, and Wayne Stouffer are all in the same sector around Luxembourg. Dick is trying to visit them but having no luck. Dick also mentions an engagement to his girlfriend of two years from England. He has been trying to get back to England to get married. Leonard thanks Susan and Raymond for the newspaper clippings and photographs of snow. Inquires if Melinda Graeff sent out a Christmas card. He mentions Mike Riccuit and Bretz and his worry for them serving in Iwo Jima. He writes "They both knew pretty sure where they were going and just what it was going to be yet they were not especially down in the dumps and joked of it when they talked. It's hard to understand things of that sort especially when you know it's to be, then read of the results still not certain how your friends may be faring." He also mentions the battles in Germany and the bombing of Tokyo. He hopes that the end of the war is near. He replies to Susan that he sent Doris Bixler a grass skirt a month ago. He describes a movie he watched titled Dragon Seed with Katherine Hepburn.

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