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Clipping, "American airplane falls from clouds in France," from an unidentified publication, May 14, 1918. Reports on two unnamed men from the 12th Aero Squadron who fatally crashed in the Toul (France) region. Originally included with correspondence…

Letter from Wilbur D. Kennedy to Carmelite (Miller) Kennedy, May 15, 1918. Includes two newspaper clippings sent to him by his mother: one about Douglas Campbell and one, a poem, "Iowa, First in Everything" by Hattie Belle Burrell; both items have…

Letter from Wilbur D. Kennedy to Carmelite (Miller) Kennedy, May 17, 1918. Acknowledges receipt of letters and says he “took them to Germany with me. Went over in a formation and I can say now I've been baptized with German fire. Coming home tonight…

Letter from Wilbur D. Kennedy to Carmelite (Miller) Kennedy, May 20, 1918. Discusses social news, states how comfortable his after-work day is and is glad of no trench life for me. Notes that he is out of larkspur lotion for the cooties but that "the…

Letter from Wilbur D. Kennedy to Carmelite (Miller) Kennedy, May 27, 1918. Discusses personal and social news, sends a red poppy, and describes very exciting experience of being attacked by a "bosche [German] plane and when I came down I had four…

Letter from Wilbur D. Kennedy to Carmelite (Miller) Kennedy, May 31, 1918. Discusses personal and social news. Two folded sheets, seven handwritten pages.

Letter from Wilbur D. Kennedy to Carmelite (Miller) Kennedy, June 5, 1918. Notes he has been promoted to Flight Commander and advises to get a copy of "Collier's Weekly," dated April 6, 1918, to see an image of the type of plane he is flying.…

Letter from Wilbur D. Kennedy to Carmelite (Miller) Kennedy, June 6, [1918]. Mentions new uniforms will be arriving soon, in a similar fashion to the British with a looser collar, discusses personal and social news. Two sheets, four handwritten…

Letter from Wilbur D. Kennedy to Carmelite (Miller) Kennedy, June 9, [1918]. Notes that he included a clipping sent to him from his mother and that the two men who fatally crashed in the Toul (France) region were the first losses of their squadron.…

Letter from Wilbur D. Kennedy to Carmelite (Miller) Kennedy, June 15, [1918]. Notes change of location within France and that he is sending a small Croix de Guerre and ribbon that one of the mechanics made out of pieces of a Bosche shell. "The ribbon…