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Various [Letter, Invitation and Train Ticket]

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC09611.148 Author/Creator: Various Place Written: Great Lakes, Illinois Type: Header Record Date: 22 November 1943 Pagination: 3 items Order a Copy

Three items pertaining to a trip taken by Leonard Eugene Graeff to a U.S.O. dance in Milwaukie Wisconsin. Contains a letter to his parents, Susan Prowell Graeff, and Raymond James Graeff, an invitation to the open house, and a furlough train ticket to Milwaukie, Wisconsin.

U.S.O. stands for United Service Organizations. The organization was founded February 4, 1941.

Graeff, Leonard Eugene, 1920-2016
Graeff, Raymond James, 1889-1963
Graeff, Susan Prowell, 1890-1967

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