07.27.1944 Letter
Dear Willard and Grace; Have received your letter of the 25th OK and was certainly surprised to know that you have not received any mail from me dated after May […]
09.26.1944 Letter
Dear Helen and Wilson; Well you can see now that I’m in another country. And so far it has been quite an experience. Have certainly seen fresh results of war. […]
10.04.1944 Letter
Dear Willard and Grace; I have received the pictures — about 5 or 6 different letters. Don’t send any more though, because I should have liked to have had them […]
10.04.1944 Letter
Dear Elizabeth; Well, what do you think of where I am now. It sure was some experience coming here though. I saw a lot of stuff. If I could write […]
10.24.1944 Letter
Dear Willard and Grace; Thought I’d better get this letter out to you while I think about it. It’s to let you know that reverse lease-lend is at work. Yes […]
10.24.1944 Letter
#2Dear Willard and Grace; Now that I have told you what to do with the package, I’ll give some of the latest dope. Am not in the same place where […]
10.29.1944 Letter
Dear Howard; Now after you read this letter, why don’t you sit down and drop me a line and let me know just what the hell you are doing. The […]
11.03.1944 Letter
Dear Willard and Grace: I now have your V-Mails of 5 and 21 Oct and needless to say I was glad to receive both. One I received yesterday, and the […]
11.09.1944 Letter
Dear Helen and Wilson; What a country this is. All people are strangers. You can’t speak with them, nor they with you. About all you can do is gesticulate. At […]
11.28.1944 Letter
Dear Willard and Grace; Have your V-Mail letter of the 11th. You apparently haven’t received the package I sent to you nor the letter explaining how the contents should be […]
12.13.1944 Letter
Dear Willard and Grace; I received your 2 V-Mail letters of the 28th of November, and they were the fastest mail that I have received from the states in some […]
12.14.1944 Letter
Dear Romayne; It seems to me that I got a letter from you a long time ago and never answered it. So I thought I’d drop you this line today. […]
12.21.1944 Letter
Dear Willard and Grace: Just thought I’d drop you a line and tell you that yesterday I received the first copy of the Saturday Evening Post. The date of the […]
01.01.1945 Meal Ticket
01.07.1945 Letter
Dear Elizabeth; You’ve probably been wondering whether or not I’ve received the package which you sent. I got it just before Christmas and in good condition. So I want to […]
01.10.1945 Letter
Dear Helen and Wilson; Guess it’s pretty nearly time that I dropped you a line and let you know where I stand again but I hardly know what to begin […]
01.12.1945 Letter
Dear Willard and Grace; I know that I owe you a letter, but have been holding off just to see if the package you had sent would arrive. Said package […]
01.21.1945 Letter
Dear Willard and Grace; Haven’t had any mail for several days now, but neither has anyone else. Won’t have any for a few days yet, and then there’ll probably be […]
02.05.1945 Letter
Dear Willard and Grace; By the time you receive this letter you probably will have received a letter which will answer most of the questions in your V-Mail of the […]
02.19.1945 Letter
Dear Helen and Wilson; Well, I can understand that you are having a real winter now. It should be swell for skiing with all that snow. But how about the […]
02.21.1945 Letter
Dear Willard and Grace; I thought I’d better answer your V-Mail of January 26 which I’ve had for quite some time now. From all indications up to the time I […]
02.25.1945 Letter
Dear Willard and Grace; Well, I guess the best way to start this letter is to tell you that you can certainly anticipate my needs to a “T”. I had […]
03.13.1945 Letter
Dear Willard and Grace; Guess I’ll have to call this a business letter. To start things off, I am going to ask you if you will do another favor for […]
03.25.1945 Letter
Dear Elizabeth; Well, I received your Easter Card with the letter. I intended to write a lot sooner, but I simply had nothing about which to write and consequently, just […]
04.01.1945 Letter
Dear Willard and Grace; Well, I was a good boy this morning and went to Church, it being Easter Sunday. To give you some idea of what the surroundings were […]
04.04.1945 Letter
Dear Helen and Wilson; Yesterday I received three packages; two from you, with jam cookies and candy and the other with cheese spreads, etc, all in good condition. The one […]
04.17.1945 Letter
Dear Willard and Grace: I thought I’d get off a few lines to you to let you know I’m still kicking. Lately we have been able to buy Coca Cola […]
04.18.1945 European Civil Affairs Division
HeadquartersEuropean Civil Affairs DivisionG-2 Section MWB/rfwAPO 65818 April 1945 Subject: Information concerning S/Sgt. Russell F WadsworthTO: Commanding Officer, Headquarters Company, E.C.A.D. In compliance with your request for information concerning subject […]
04.30.1945 Letter
Dear Willard and Grace; Happened to think that it is just about time that I dropped a few more lines to you. I was in a French home the other […]
08.05.1945 Letter
Dear Willard and Grace; Well, if you look at a map of France, you will find this place on the channel coast not far from Le Havre. It is here […]
08.07.1945 Letter
Dear Helen and Wilson; Thought I’d drop you a line from this little resort town located here on the northern coast of France, right on the channel. We’re all set […]
WWII Photos
Russell Wadsworth (left)Judd Lewis (right)Camped near the Chateau, Southwest of Paris
WWII Photos
(left to right)Bob Barker, Russell Wadsworth, Judd LewisHeadquarters ECAD (European Civil Affairs Division)Troyes, France 1944
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