Saturday, July 18, 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"
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- About Letter 94
- Letter 94- April 24. 1944
- About Letter 93
- Letter 93- April 21, 1944
- About Letter 92
- Letter 92- April 17, 1944
- About Letter 91
- Letter 91- April 15, 1944
- About Letter 90
- Letter 90- April 13, 1944
- About Letter 89
- Letter 89- April 11, 1944
- About Letter 88
- Letter 88- April 9, 1944
- About Letter 87
- Letter 87- April 6, 1944
- About Letter 86
- Letter 86- April 4, 1944
- About Letter 85
- Letter 85- April 1, 1944
- About Letter 84
- Letter 84- March 29, 1944
- About Letter 83
- Letter 83- March 26, 1944
- About Letter 82
- Letter 82- March 20, 1944
- About Letter 81
- Letter 81- March 16, 1944
- About Letter 80
- Letter 80- March 13, 1944
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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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