Thursday, September 10, 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 133
- Letter 133- October 17, 1944
- About Letter 132
- Letter 132- October 11, 1944
- About Letter 131
- Letter 131- October 8, 1944
- About Censorship
- About Letter 130
- Letter 130- October 6, 1944
- About Letter 129
- Letter 129- October 4, 1944
- About Letter 128
- Letter 128- October 1, 1944
- About Letter 127
- Letter 127- September 28, 1944
- About Letter 126
- Letter 126- September 24, 1944
- About Letter 125
- Letter 125- September 22, 1944
- About Letter 124
- Letter 124- September 21, 1944
- About Letter 123
- Letter 123- September 20, 1944
- About Letter 122
- Letter 122- September 19, 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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