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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, 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 11, 1918. Describes his camp and how the Red Cross has set up a club, talks about grooming his plane and machine gun, and describes their camp as having the finest mess in the front.…

Letter from Wilbur D. Kennedy to Carmelite (Miller) Kennedy, May 13, 1918. Discusses how comfortable camp life is, notes that a couple of the boys were recently honored by visiting notables and awarded the French Croix de Guerre. Two folded sheets,…

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 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…