Details

Subject(s)

• World War, 1939-1945—United States [Browse]

Digitizer

• Adam Matthew Digital (Firm) [Browse]

Compiled/​Created

1944.

Summary note

Description: Mrs. Frank Gooch, New Orleans, to Sgt. Frank Gooch, 2628th Hospital Section. Asking him to be her valentine; receiving news of his stomach trouble; anecdote of Marine being injured on train and suing railroad; sick of being a "war widow"; asking him to tell her where he is in Europe; looking for an apartment in New Orleans; living without hot water; asking him to write soon. Also included transcription of New Orleans Times Picayune article on invitation of next-of-kin of prisoners of war to meet recently returned American POWs where they discussed the discharge point system and bombs dropped on American POWs traveling on German railroads.

Original version

Reproduction of: Letter from Mrs. Frank Gooch, New Orleans, to Sgt. Frank Gooch, 2628th Hospital Section from 14 February 1944 14-Feb-44.

Location of originals

The National WWII Museum

Copyright note

Material sourced from The National WWII Museum

Source of description

Description based on online resource (viewed on June 12, 2019).

Other title(s)

America in World War Two.

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