Friday, December 11, 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"
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December
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- Between the Lines: Bill in Combat Jan. 11 to Jan.3...
- About Letter 174
- Letter 174- January 28, 1945
- About Letter 173
- Letter 173- January 27, 1945
- About Letter 172
- Letter 172- January 23, 1945
- Between the Lines: Bill in Combat- Life in a Foxhole
- About Letter 171
- Letter 171- January 12, 1945
- Between the Lines: Bill in Combat Dec.22, 1944-Jan...
- About Letter 170
- Letter 170- January 10, 1945
- About Letter 169
- Letter 169- December 29, 1944
- About Letter 168
- Letter 168- December 28, 1944
- About Letter 167
- Letter 167- December 26, 1944-2
- About Letter 166
- Letter 166- December 26, 1944
- About Letter 165
- Letter 165- December 24, 1944-2
- About Letter 164
- Letter 164- December 24, 1944
- About Letter 163
- Letter 163- December 21, 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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