A YMCA-issued letter sheet, part of the Y.M.C.A.'s wartime welfare services for American troops, carries a handwritten account from Private Willis W. Wagener describing camp life with the American Expeditionary Forces. He details the long walks to a crowded mess hall feeding thousands of men and the cold, heatless loft where he was billeted near a prison camp in France, offering an intimate glimpse of a doughboy's daily hardships during World War I. Project: 218262