Written on YMCA-issued 'With the Colors' stationery, this April 1918 letter from Pvt. Willis W. Wagener describes wartime inflation faced by French shopkeepers dealing with well-paid American soldiers, and voices frustration over strict military censorship of his mail home. The YMCA distributed such stationery widely to American troops in France, making it among the most common surviving letter formats from WWI doughboys. Project: 218174