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- Letter to Jean Worthington by Edward "Ned" Manley, April 02, 1945. Manley notes that they got up a 4:00 A.M. in the morning to go out to the rifle range.
- Date Created:
- 1945-04-02T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Grand Valley State University. University Libraries
- Notes:
- Letter to Jean Worthington by Edward "Ned" Manley, April 18, 1945. Manley notes that he is Corporal of the Guard, and is in charge of the Regimental Guard detail.
- Date Created:
- 1945-04-18T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Grand Valley State University. University Libraries
- Notes:
- Letter to Jean Worthington by Edward "Ned" Manley, June 11, 1945. Manley states that they were given two more weeks of training. His sergeant also said that he might have to stay at Frt. McClellan.
- Date Created:
- 1945-06-11T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Grand Valley State University. University Libraries
- Notes:
- Francisco Vega was born in San Antonio, Texas. He tried to enlist in the military immediately after Pearl Harbor, but was initially rejected because of his Mexican ancestry. He eventually did enlist in the Army Air Corps, and began a long process in which he used his talents and persuasive skills to find increasingly interesting assignments, eventually training as a teletype operator with a signals unit that landed on Omaha Beach on D-Day and was eventually part of Eisenhower's headquarters.
- Date Created:
- 2008-03-07T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Grand Valley State University. University Libraries
- Collection:
- Veterans History Project (U.S.)
- Notes:
- Letter to Jean Worthington by Edward "Ned" Manley, February 18, 1945. Manley notes that he watched a movie called "Objective Burma." He also wishes Worthington a good night.
- Date Created:
- 1945-02-18T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Grand Valley State University. University Libraries
- Notes:
- Letter to Jean Worthington by Edward "Ned" Manley, March 29, 1945. Manley notes that he wrote to his mother, and he received two letters that day. One from his mother and the other from Worthington.
- Date Created:
- 1945-03-29T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Grand Valley State University. University Libraries
- Notes:
- John Mercurio served in the Army Air Corps between 1943 and 1946. He was an aircraft engine technician who repaired and maintained bombers at fields on Biak and Leyte in the Pacific during the war, and provides a vivid description of the difficulties of working on Biak in particular. He also spent time in Japan during the occupation and worked on experimental jets and helicopters at Wright Air Force Base in Ohio.
- Date Created:
- 2007-11-15T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Grand Valley State University. University Libraries
- Collection:
- Veterans History Project (U.S.)
- Notes:
- Letter to Jean Worthington by Edward "Ned" Manley, February 20, 1945. Manley notes that he and a German prisoner of war made pineapple turnovers.
- Date Created:
- 1945-02-20T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Grand Valley State University. University Libraries
- Notes:
- Bill Lamb served in the Army Air Corps during World War II. He served as a glider pilot, despite being trained on powered airplanes, in the European theater during the later part of World War II. He participated in the Rhine crossing in 1945, and later on he flew supplies to Patton and transported wounded men and rescued POWs. Flight report appended to outline.
- Date Created:
- 2008-05-11T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Grand Valley State University. University Libraries
- Collection:
- Veterans History Project (U.S.)
- Notes:
- Letter to Jean Worthington by Edward "Ned" Manley, June 20, 1945. Manley tells Worthington that he had a class in marching for a parade that was happening on Friday.
- Date Created:
- 1945-06-20T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Grand Valley State University. University Libraries
