Monday, March 16, 2009
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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"
About Me
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March
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- Map of Camp Abbot
- About Letter 44
- Letter 44- December 14, 1944
- About Letter 43
- Letter 43- December 12, 1943
- About Letter 42
- Letter 42- December 10, 1943
- About Letter 41
- Letter 41- December 9, 1943
- About Letter 40
- Letter 40- December 7, 1943
- About Letter 39
- Letter 39- December 6, 1943
- About Letter 38
- Letter 38- December 5, 1943
- About Letter 37
- Letter 37- December 5, 1943
- About Letter 36
- Letter 36- December 3, 1943
- About Letter 35
- No title
- Letter 35- December 3, 1943
- About the ASTP
- About Letter 34
- Letter 34- December 1, 1943
- About Letter 33
- Letter 33- November 29, 1943
- About Letter 32
- Letter 32- November 28, 1943
- About Letter 31
- Letter 31- November 23, 1943
- About Letter 30
- Letter 30- November 21, 1943
- About Letter 29
- Letter 29- November 18, 1943
- Letter 28- November 16, 1943
- Letter 27- November 15, 1943
- About Letter 26
- Letter 26- November 15, 1943
- About Letter 25
- Letter 25- November 14, 1943
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Followers
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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