Letters and newspaper clippings written by Hughes during World War II : Correspondence 1944-1945.

Format:

Book

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Summary:

Description: Correspondence, letters from Hughes in India, Burma and China home to family. Letters discuss a man working on the home front and Hughes’s appreciation of him; descriptions of India as poverty stricken, and with many deformed peoples; an old soul of India; America’s need to help the Indian people through education; V-mail Christmas greetings from the CBI; African American USO show in Burma; finding a Japanese skull souvenir; "War is a lonely business. No one will ever know the horror our men go through except the boys themselves. America’s debt to them can never be repaid" â€" response to finding GI bone in shoe as only remaining part of soldier; vivid description of watching movies about the discovery of concentration camps in Europe and how it made everyone in the CBI feel, even refers to a Jewish tattooed skin collection of a German; reminder to wife that Nazi atrocities make their separation worth it. 1944-45 (6 items). Newspaper articles written by Hughes. Envelopes, empty. Unit history. Typed home front activities of the 302nd Engineer Battalion (C) â€" Battalion History, written by Hughes. 16 pages, pages 8 and 15 missing. Miscellaneous materials including change of address card; telegram; Newsletter ‘The Gold Beacon’ of Lincoln, Nebraska, Vol. 1, No. 6 March 1944; small paper blood chit with Burmese and Americanized script â€" probably intended for Kachin population; Christmas card issued by the British RAF in Chaklala, India, now Pakistan.

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Description based on online resource (viewed on June 12, 2019).