Tuesday, June 1, 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 243
- Letter 243- October 4, 1945
- About Letter 242
- Letter 242- September 30, 1945-2
- About Letter 241
- Letter 241- September 30, 1945
- About Letter 240
- Letter 240- September 27, 1945
- About Letter 239
- Letter 239- September 23, 1945
- About Letter 238
- Letter 238- September 18, 1945
- About Letter 237
- Letter 237- September 17, 1945
- About Letter 236
- Letter 236- September 14, 1945
- About Letter 235
- Letter 235- September 9, 1945
- About Letter 234
- Letter 234- September 5, 1945
- About Letter 233
- Letter 233- August 30, 1945
- About the Point System
- About Letter 232
- Letter 232- August 27-28, 1945
- About Letter 231
- Letter 231- August 23, 1945
- About Letter 230
- Letter 230- August 21, 1945
- About Letter 229
- Letter 229- August 18, 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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