The Snapshots in Time Collection

Gallery: LETTER 1919 02 04

Pvt. Willis W. Wagener's account of coming home in February 1919: weeks of waiting at Brest, shipboard delousing and quarantine, and the liner Celtic steaming into New York harbor. Bands, ferries around Manhattan, and volunteers handing out coffee, cake, and cigarettes greet him at Camp Mills as demobilization begins.

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