401st/327th
Came across a box of letters from a 401st "C" company glider rider S/Sgt. Most are mundane but a few are interesting which brings me to this. Anyone here interested in reading his words prior to and...
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DSat. 23-44. Today we are in Holland. It is not far from here to Eindhoven,Holland and we are getting nearer the "front" all the time. I can hear the guns, and we should be there today. The Enemy sure...
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DSunday. We left one week ago today and last night we arrived at the front. Yesterday afternoon about 3pm the sky was black over Holland with gliders and planes going toward the front lines and...
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The previous post should have read, D+7. There's one page left to go with writing on both sides.
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One of the letters written stateside was self-censored but the S/Sgt sent news clippings about what he was involved with giving his wife an opportunity to know all about his Tenn. manauevers. Dated...
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Monday D+8. We moved to another place again yesterday and I don't know how long we will be here. The guns are sure making a lot of noise here-but I expected it as bad or worse than it is. Some of us...
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Doug, My only guess for the "furniture dealers" crack has to do with all the wood and canvas used to build the glider. Step into a glider and you will see wooden seats, wooden floorboards, metal tubes...
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Tuesday.D+9. It is cold here today; it rained all night again last night and part of today. C-47 's came over again yesterday and brought supplies and dropped them by parachute. Some of us went out...
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Greetings from Dayton and the WWII Glider Pilot Reunion. No I had never heard of the "furniture dealers" before. But I would say it came because there were so many furniture companies that made the...
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Wednesday-D+10. It had been raining again this morning and nearly all day yesterday. Our Typhoon planes were earlier rocketing the enemy gun positions, but now it it has started raining again. A day...
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Nov. 1st 1944: It has been a long long time ago since I last wrote (Sept.27th) and we have been through a lot of hardships since that time and none of know what is ahead, but we hope the worst is...
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Great posts! Look forward to the last bit (about the Dutch)!! Tom "Battle Detective"
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The following excerpt was to the S/Sgt's wife and dated November 16, 1944 "From Holland" ....have nothing to do just now...decided it was a good time to write our homefolks...We are in an old barn...
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I have one more letter I shall quote from soon. It explains what a "blue letter" is.
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In my research of the 321st GFA for about thirteen years running I had never seen nor heard of a "blue letter" until coming upon this batch of 401st/327th letters. Even your webmaster was unfamiliar...
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Thanks for taking the time to post all of this .It was a interresting reading. Maybe you have more in the near future. Boy
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