Thursday, April 15, 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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- About Letter 219
- Letter 217- July 20-21, 1945
- About Letter 216
- Letter 216- July 19, 1945
- About Letter 215
- Letter 215- July 17-18, 1945
- About Letter 214
- Letter 214- July 15, 1945(2)
- About Letter 213
- Letter 213- July 15, 1945
- About Letter 212
- Letter 212- July 11, 1945
- About Letter 211
- Letter 211- July 10, 1945
- About Letter 210
- Letter 210- July 8, 1945
- About Letter 209
- Letter 209- July 5, 1945
- About Letter 208
- Letter 208- July 2, 1945
- About Letter 207
- Letter 207- June 28, 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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