The Collection Battle Lines: From America's Wars



FLORA ANN S. HINDS handed this letter to her brother, Claude Herbert Smith, as he boarded a bus to leave for active duty in World War II. Smith went on to fly several combat missions on a B-24 bomber and twice survived being shot down. After the war, he went to college under the G.I. Bill and married his childhood sweetheart. He will be 84 this year. Get transcript


Sgt. Helen Pyeatt, MCWR, Camp Lejeune, N.C., ca 1945 (GLC 06567-3)
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