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War era letters reveal family appeals and frontline notes
excerpts from letters by Corp Donald Hale in North Africa and others from Louis Pierson, Glenn Gillespie, Wendell Nelson, and Russell Boardman to their families describe longing for home, requests for magazines, updates on weather and travels, and experiences with combat and desert duty in 1940s wartime.
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E. R. Hale
Fourth Street
Corp
Donald Hale
North Africa
Gear
Colliers, American
Saturday Evening Post
Roy
Link
Shorty
Mother
Rex
Irene
Don
Louis Pierson
U. S. Coast Guard
Netarts
Ore
C. N. Pierson
Wolsey
Louis