Dear Betty ... Letters to a War Bride - Softcover

Leslie D. Lucas Jr.

9780965056809: Dear Betty ... Letters to a War Bride

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0965056805 ISBN 13: 9780965056809

Publisher: Boyd-Madison Publishing, 1996

You may find yourself in these letters (unedited except to correct spelling and punctuation). They tell in chronological order the full story of a courtship and marriage, and how a 19-year-old boy from the hills of West Virginia dealt with being torn from family and the girl he loved and thrown into the stress of military life. There are stories of artillery training with the 87th Infantry Division, the classification "sweat" of an aviation cadet who qualified to become a pilot then was sent back to ground forces along with 36,000 other cadets, and of combat as an infantryman in Europe with the 86th Infantry Division. The trip to the Pacific tops off 37 months of wartime experiences.

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