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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, April 1918. Discusses various social and personal news. Three handwritten pages with envelope.

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 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, 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…