The Snapshots in Time Collection

Closing Page of WWI Letter from Pvt. Willis W. Wagener, Co. B, 30th Engineers, A.E.F. France

Closing Page of WWI Letter from Pvt. Willis W. Wagener, Co. B, 30th Engineers, A.E.F. France

This closing page of a personal letter written by Private Willis W. Wagener of Company B, 30th Engineer Regiment, American Expeditionary Forces, offers a brief, tender glimpse into a soldier's correspondence home from France during World War I. Amid concerns for his father's health and reassurances of his own well-being, Wagener's letter reflects the everyday emotional texture of wartime family separation. The 30th Engineers served the A.E.F. in a specialized gas and flame warfare capacity, placing this soldier's simple words of love within the larger context of America's first major overseas military commitment. Project: 218272