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Letter from Wilbur D. Kennedy to Carmelite (Miller) Kennedy, May 8, 1918. States that he now has his own plane, discusses a pretty bad spill and encloses a sliver from his plane's propeller. Two folded sheets, seven handwritten pages, with envelope…

Letter from Wilbur D. Kennedy to Carmelite (Miller) Kennedy, May 4, 1918. Describes various personal and social news as well as how busy life is on the front. Includes enclosed letter from Harold (classmate from ground school) to Kennedy, who…

Letter from Wilbur D. Kennedy to Carmelite (Miller) Kennedy, April 24, 1918. Describes personal feelings, advises that “I am leaving my present camp any day and commence working over the lines. You know what that means. I am fully prepared and all…

Letter from Wilbur D. Kennedy to Carmelite (Miller) Kennedy, April 20, 1918. Mentions that in a month he will be wearing a gold stripe on right arm for six months in the zone of advance and that he sustained a minor injury. Discusses seeing telephone…

Letter from Wilbur D. Kennedy to Carmelite (Miller) Kennedy, April 1918. Discusses various social and personal news. Three handwritten pages with envelope.

Letter from Wilbur D. Kennedy to "Dearest Girl," January 6, 1917 [possibly misdated and should be 1918]. Starts off with a Rudyard Kipling quote: "Just a line to you dear / When the lights are low. / Just a dream of you dear / For the even's glow."…

Letter from Wilbur D. Kennedy to Carmelite (Miller) Kennedy, circa March or April, 1918. Discusses various personal and social news and notes that though he cannot speak of certain things in these letters, he has been keeping a diary to share with…

Letter from Wilbur D. Kennedy to Carmelite (Miller) Kennedy, March 21, 1918. Discusses various personal and social news. One typed page on American Expeditionary Forces stationery with envelope.

Letter from Wilbur D. Kennedy to Carmelite (Miller) Kennedy, March 18, 1918. Describes making a forced landing with a dead motor near a certain unidentified city and describes the officers' club in detail, including an "honest to goodness American…

Letter from Wilbur D. Kennedy to Carmelite (Miller) Kennedy, March 15, 1918. Acknowledges receipt of two letters, mentions doing a lot of flying and that he has to go where Keith is stationed on business, and brief personal and social news. One typed…