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- GLC#
- GLC09620.136-View header record
- Type
- Letters
- Date
- 10 October 1944
- Author/Creator
- Stone, Robert L., 1921-2009
- Title
- to Jacob Stone and Beatrice Stone
- Place Written
- Marshall Islands
- Pagination
- 2 p. : envelope Height: 24.3 cm, Width: 16.7 cm
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- Transcript of document
- Primary time period
- Great Depression and World War II, 1929-1945
- Sub-Era
- World War II
Addressed to "Dad + Bee." All is well, if a little dull. The squadron went on a raid, but his crew stayed back. He walked around the atoll, but "it's just a flat coral atoll with no plant life of any sort, any more," due to earlier bombing. He complains briefly about the rations and the "terribly hot and very sultry weather." They're constantly perspiring. Some mail has been forwarded, but so far none from his family.
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