Saturday, February 27, 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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February
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- Between the Lines: Bill in Combat April 16-24, 1945
- About Letter 190
- Letter 190- April 24, 1945
- Between the Lines: Bill in Combat April 10-15, 1945
- Between the Lines: Bill in Combat April 6-9, 1945
- About Letter 189
- Letter 189-April 20, 1945
- Between the Lines: Bill in Combat March 25-April 5...
- About Letter 188
- Letter 188- April 5, 1945
- About Letter 187
- Letter 187- April 2, 1945
- About Letter 186
- Letter 186- March 29, 1945
- Between the Lines: Bill in Combat March 16-24, 1945
- About Letter 185
- Letter 185- March 24, 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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