Wednesday, March 31, 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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- Quiz Sheet Deluxe- June 17, 1945
- About Letter 206
- Letter 206- June 26, 1945
- About Letter 205
- Letter 205- June 24, 1945
- About Letter 204
- Letter 204- June 22, 1945
- About Letter 203
- Letter 203- June 17, 1945
- About Letter 202
- Letter 202- June 15, 1945
- About Letter 201
- Letter 201- June 10, 1945
- About Letter 200
- Letter 200- June 5, 1945
- About Letter 199
- Letter 199- May 30, 1945
- About Letter 198
- Letter 198- May 21, 1945
- About Letter 197
- Letter 197- May 20, 1945
- About Letter 196
- Letter 196- May 13, 1945
- About Letter 195
- Letter 195- May 11, 1945
- About Letter 194
- Letter 194- May 3, 1945
- About Letter 193
- Letter 193- May 2, 1945
- About Letter 192
- Letter 192- April 28, 1945
- About Letter 191
- Letter 191- April 26, 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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