Sunday, August 2, 2009
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My father, Pfc. William W. Taylor Jr. served in the 100th. Infantry Division, 399th. Regiment, Co. A. His Division saw duty in France and Germany spending 185 consecutive days on the battle line. He wrote nearly 300 letters home chronicling his service to our country. Like so many combat veterans of the War he spoke little of his experiences, but these letters tell the story.
My Hero
As a young boy my heroes were from books. Fighting men like Captain Horatio Hornblower and Francis Marion "the Swamp Fox" fired my imagination. More than anything I wanted to be like them, strong, brave, and heroic. One day, while rummaging around my father's closet I came upon a large box. Arranged within the box were 5 or 6 dusty, dirty cigar boxes. Inside the boxes were hundreds of old letters. They were numbered, in sequence and in the original envelopes. I opened the first letter and started to read. From that day on, my hero became not Horatio Hornblower or Francis Marion, but Pfc. William Wellington Taylor, Jr., my father. The letters were his letters home from World War II.
NOTE: The letters in this collection appear in reverse order. To read them in chronological order starting with the first letter go to the link at the bottom of this page entitled "Read letters in order starting with Letter 1"
NOTE: The letters in this collection appear in reverse order. To read them in chronological order starting with the first letter go to the link at the bottom of this page entitled "Read letters in order starting with Letter 1"
About Me
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- About Letter 121
- Letter 121- September 17, 1944
- About Letter 120
- Letter 120- September 9, 1944
- About Letter 119
- Letter 119- September 1, 1944
- About Letter 118
- Letter 118- August 27, 1944
- About Letter 117
- Letter 117- August 20, 1944
- About Letter 116
- Letter 116- August 13, 1944
- About Letter 115
- Letter 115- August 9, 1944
- About Letter 114
- Letter 114- August 5, 1944
- About Letter 113
- Letter 113- August 1, 1944
- About Bill's Queen Mary Crossing
- About Letter 112
- Letter 112- July 30, 1944 (est.)
- About Letter 111
- Letter 111- July 19, 1944
- About Letter 110
- Letter 110- July 15, 1944
- About Letter 109
- Letter 109- July 10, 1944
- About Letter 108
- Letter 108- July 6, 1944
- About Letter 107
- Letter 107- July 4, 1944
- About Bill's Politics
- About Letter 106
- Letter 106- June 29, 1944
- About Letter 105
- Letter 105- June 23, 1944
- About Camp Reynolds
- About Letter 104
- Letter 104- June 22, 1944
- About Letter 103
- Letter 103- June 19, 1944
- About Letter 102
- Letter 102- June 16, 1944
- About Letter 101
- Letter 101- May 23, 1944
- About Letter 100
- Letter 100- May 11, 1944
- About Letter 99
- Letter 99- May 7, 1944
- About Letter 98
- Letter 98- May 6, 1944
- About Letter 97
- Letter 97- May 3, 1944
- About Dad
- About Mudder
- About Letter 96
- Letter 96- May 1, 1944
- About Letter 95
- Letter 95- April 28, 1944
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100th Infantry Division
100th. Infantry Patch
Read letters in order starting with Letter 1
Read the letters in this collection in the order they were written, from first to last in my new website at:
http://wwiiwwtaylor.wordpress.com/
http://wwiiwwtaylor.wordpress.com/
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