The Snapshots in Time Collection
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