[Letter from Wilbur D. Kennedy to Carmelite (Miller) Kennedy, May 17, 1918]

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 as I crossed the lines a bunch of archies bracketed me, like this [includes a doodle of center plane being surrounded by other planes]. I had a hard time for about five minutes but none hit me altho [sic] my plane has several shrapnel rips in it." One folded sheet, four handwritten pages, with envelope.

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