The Snapshots in Time Collection
Handwritten WWI Letter, Page 5E, Pvt. Willis W. Wagener to His Son
In this page from a WWI letter, Private Willis W. Wagener describes makeshift overnight lodging in a bombed-out French structure and reflects on the elaborate handmade floral tributes adorning a nearby soldiers' graveyard. Personal letters like this provide intimate, firsthand accounts of daily life for American soldiers serving in France during the First World War. Project: 218272