The Snapshots in Time Collection

Gallery: LETTER 13.5 TO WINNIE

A censored 1918 letter home from Pvt. Willis W. Wagener of Company B, 30th Engineers — a Gas and Flame unit — writing to Winnie from the Western Front in France. Between a Y.M.C.A. money transfer and the struggle to learn French, he jokes that he needs mosquito netting less for mosquitoes than for flies.

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