Wednesday, May 26, 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 228
- Letter 228- August 16, 1945
- About Letter 227
- Letter 227- August 12, 1945
- About the Planned Invasion of Japan
- About Letter 226
- Letter 226- August 10, 1945
- About Letter 225
- Letter 225- August 9, 1945
- About Letter 224
- Letter 224- August 6, 1945
- About Letter 223
- Letter 223- August 2, 1945
- About Letter 222
- Letter 222- July 29, 1945
- About Letter 221
- Letter 221- July 27, 1945
- About Letter 220
- Letter 220- July 24, 1945
- About Letter 219
- Letter 219- July 23, 1945
- About Letter 218
- Letter 218- July 20, 1945 (2)
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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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