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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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- About Letter 57
- Letter 57- January 6, 1944
- About Letter 56
- Letter 56- January 6, 1944
- About Letter 55
- Letter 55- January 1, 1944
- About the Abbot Engineer
- Abbot Engineer Jan. 1, 1944
- Abbot Engineer Jan. 1, 1944- pg.2
- Abbot Engineer Jan. 1, 1944- pg.3
- Abbot Engineer Jan. 1, 1944- pg.4
- About Letter 54
- Letter 54- December 28, 1943
- About Letter 53
- Letter 53- December 27, 1943
- About Letter 52
- Letter 52- December 26, 1943
- About Letter 51
- Letter 51- December 25, 1943
- Camp Abbot Christmas Card- 1943
- About Letter 50
- Letter 50- December 23, 1943
- About the .30 Caliber Machine Gun
- About Letter 49
- Letter 49- December 22, 1943
- Letter 48- December 20, 1943
- About Letter 47
- Letter 47- December 18, 1943
- Excelsior
- About Letter 46
- Letter 46- December 16, 1943
- About Letter 45
- Letter 45- December 15, 1943
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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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