Series 1.1 Correspondence from Walker Marshall Turner to his wife, Mary Lalla Byrn Turner : Correspondence; Ephemera; V-mail 1943.

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Book

Language:

English

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1 online resource

Summary:

Description: Series I. Correspondence, 1943. Letters from Turner, July 1943 to December 1943. This series contains letters from Walker Marshall Turner to his wife, Mary Lalla Byrn Turner. In the letters, Turner discusses tasks that he does during the day such as censoring soldiers’ mail, as well as the hospital work he completes, how he spends his free time, what kinds of entertainment is put on for the soldiers, and the weather. He does mention in one letter that he is in Oran, Algiers, North Africa. Topics: letters soldiers receive from home are censored; he had his first Coca-Cola and first real meal (September 6) in a long time and it was a nice treat; he was so bored one day that he typed a letter he received from his wife in order to see how long it was compared to the letters he wrote; and water is so hot in Algiers, North Africa that it needs to be cooled in order to drink it or use it to bathe. Note: The book does contain the transcription of the 10, 11 December 1943 letters, but the original letters are not in the collection.

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