The Snapshots in Time Collection

Gallery: LETTER 8

Written from France in July 1918, this group of letter pages and a "Soldiers Mail" envelope carries the words of Private Willis W. Wagener of Company B, 30th Engineers, home to Ceres, California. He describes anti-aircraft fire over Allied observation planes, a change of company command, and his transfer through a replacement company during the Second Battle of the Marne.

Project: 218270