The Snapshots in Time Collection
Gallery: LETTER 12
Letter No. 12, written August 8, 1918 by Pvt. Willis W. Wagener of the 30th Engineers, describing constant movement near the front and the unceasing rumble of artillery. His eyewitness account of a German aircraft sending an American observation balloon down in flames — its observer escaping by parachute — sits alongside notes on gas-tainted mud and money sent home.
WWI Censored Mail Envelope, Pvt. Willis W. Wagener, 30th Engineers, AEF France (August 1918)
Handwritten WWI Letter No. 12 from Pvt. Willis W. Wagener, August 8, 1918
WWI Letter from Pvt. Willis W. Wagener to His Son — Letter 12, Page C: Observation Balloon Attack and Artillery Under Fire
