Tuesday, January 12, 2010
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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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January
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- Between the Lines: Bill in Combat March 5-15, 1945
- About Letter 184
- Letter 184- March 21, 1945
- About Letter 183
- Letter 183- March 14, 1945
- About Letter 182
- Letter 182- March 6, 1945
- Between the Lines:Bill in Combat January 30 to Mar...
- About Letter 181
- Letter 181- March 5, 1945
- About Attrition and Troop Replacements
- About Letter 180
- Letter 180- February 20, 1945
- About Letter 179
- Letter 179- February 18, 1945
- About Letter 178
- Letter 178- February 15, 1945
- About Letter 177
- Letter 177- February 14, 1945
- About Letter 176
- Letter 176- February 7, 1945
- About Letter 175
- Letter 175- February 6, 1945
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January
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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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