Still enjoying the comforts of a warm building as Company A remains in reserve, Bill sends home an official 399th. Infantry Regiment Christmas card along with a 20 franc note as a souvenir.
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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"
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- Between the Lines: Bill in Combat Dec.14-21, 1944
- About Letter 162
- Letter 162- December 16, 1944
- About Letter 161
- Letter 161- December 13, 1944
- About Letter 160
- Letter 160- December 12, 1944-3
- About Letter 159
- Letter 159- December 12, 1944-2
- About Letter 158
- Letter 158- December 12, 1944
- Between the Lines: Bill in Combat Dec.1-12, 1944
- About Letter 157
- Letter 157- December 1, 1944
- About Letter 156
- Letter 156- November 29, 1944
- About Bill's Battleground-The Vosges Mountains
- About Letter 155
- Letter 155- November 26, 1944
- About the 100th. Infantry Division
- About Letter 154
- Letter 154- November 25, 1944-3
- About Letter 153
- Letter 153- November 25, 1944-2
- About Letter 152
- Letter 152- November 25, 1944
- About the U. S. Seventh Army
- About Letter 151
- Letter 151- November 24, 1944
- About Letter 150
- Letter 150- November 18, 1944
- About Letter 149
- Letter 149- November 16, 1944
- About Letter 148
- Letter 148- November 14, 1944
- About Letter 147
- Letter 147- November 2, 1944
- About Letter 146
- Letter 146- November 1, 1944
- About Letter 145
- Letter 145- October 29, 1945
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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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