This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!
Letters From Our Boys Back Home During World War II
A collection of mailed letters from service members describing daily life abroad. Messages reference meetings with hometown friends in London and Northern Ireland, notes on port life, morale boosting gifts from home, and longing to return to the United States aboard the U S S South Dakota.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mr. Wilson
Herald
London
Picadilly
C. L
Boosie” Grissom
Northern Ireland
Charles Taylor
Belfast
N. I
England
Clifton Hux
Darlington
Ireland
Atlas Wright
Gasburg
New York
G. I
Pfe
Wyatt Cullom
Dodger
Walter
Pfc
Walter E. Carter
M. P
E. G. Co
Camp Greeley
Colo
South Dakota
States
San Francisco
Bremerton
Brooklyn
Guadalcanal
Dubarry
American Legion of South Dakota
Modesto Mothers Club
Bucket League
Philadelphia
Shipbuilders Union (Cio
Camden
New Jersey
Lindsey W. Sadler
Ray Barrington
Sant
Carroll
Japan
Ol X
Sic
U. S. S. South Dakota
Care Fleet Postoffice
Calif