Diamond, Sidney, 1922-1945 to Estelle Spero

GLC09120.431

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GLC#
GLC09120.431-View header record
Type
Letters
Date
8 June 1944
Author/Creator
Diamond, Sidney, 1922-1945
Title
to Estelle Spero
Place Written
Bougainville, Papua New Guinea
Pagination
7 p. : Height: 16 cm, Width: 18 cm
Primary time period
Great Depression and World War II, 1929-1945
Sub-Era
World War II

Diamond informs Estelle that Mario Colin, presumably a friend, had written that "the average soldier doesn't know what he's fighting for" in a letter addressed to Sidney. Diamond then refutes this: "…I believe wholeheartedly in the way of government we have…"

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