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Letter from Wilbur D. Kennedy to Carmelite (Miller) Kennedy, March 24, [1919]. Discusses personal and social news. Four handwritten pages with envelope.

Letter from Wilbur D. Kennedy to Carmelite (Miller) Kennedy, March 3, 1919. Mentions he is now Air Service Commander, Fourth Army Corps and has one squadron, one balloon company, and two photo sections to look after. Briefly discusses personal news,…

Letter from Wilbur D. Kennedy to Carmelite (Miller) Kennedy, March 31, 1919. Advises that he expects to be home sometime in July, discusses personal and social news. Eight handwritten pages with envelope.

Letter from Wilbur D. Kennedy to Carmelite (Miller) Kennedy, March 6, 1918. Discusses various personal and social news. Three handwritten pages with envelope.

Letter from Wilbur D. Kennedy to Carmelite (Miller) Kennedy, March 6, 1919. Discusses social and personal news. Eight 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…