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[Letter from Wilbur D. Kennedy to Carmelite (Miller) Kennedy, December 3, 1917] (Item)

Letter from Wilbur D. Kennedy to Carmelite (Miller) Kennedy, December 3, 1917. Advises that he received orders tonight to pack up all things and be ready to go at a moment's notice. "I don't know where I am going but I am on the way." Mentions sending a piece of his officer hat cord to her, as well as making an arrangement to have his insignia sent to her if anything happens to me. Includes…

[Letter from Wilbur D. Kennedy to Carmelite (Miller) Kennedy, September 2, 1917] (Item)

Letter from Wilbur D. Kennedy to Carmelite (Miller) Kennedy, September 2, 1917. Mentions he will be solo flying in a week, meeting Cornelius Van Vliet, Albert Lindquist, and Alma Beck (classical musician/singers of the 1910-1920s), and various personal news. Also includes clipping from unknown publication with image entitled "Aviation Students of Company B at Wright Field." Four handwritten pages…

[Letter from Wilbur D. Kennedy to Carmelite (Miller) Kennedy, August 12, 1917] (Item)

Letter from Wilbur D. Kennedy to Carmelite (Miller) Kennedy, August 12, 1917. Discusses military training, passing of exams so far, mentions that two men were dishonorably discharged for cheating on exams, the possibility of being sent to France, and to tell no one until it is certain, and various personal news. Three handwritten pages with envelope.

[Letter from Wilbur D. Kennedy to Carmelite (Miller) Kennedy, September 16, 1917] (Item)

Letter from Wilbur D. Kennedy to Carmelite (Miller) Kennedy, September 16, 1917. Describes leisure activities when not training, discusses personal and social news. Nine handwritten pages on Young Men's Christian Association stationery with envelope.

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

Letter from Wilbur D. Kennedy to Carmelite (Miller) Kennedy, January 17, 1917 [likely misdated and should be 1918]. Discusses moving to a new location in France, described as "quite a jump and now I am at last at the front of the advance." A small area has been carefully removed from letter by Wilbur, who notes he had written something he should not have shared. Two handwritten pages with…

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

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…

[Letter from Wilbur D. Kennedy to Carmelite (Miller) Kennedy, June 9, 1918] (Item)

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. Advises to obtain a copy of "Collier's Weekly," April 12, 1918, Volume 61 and read pages 16-18 for details on what he has been doing. Also includes…

[Letter from Wilbur D. Kennedy to Carmelite (Miller) Kennedy, May 20, 1918] (Item)

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 boys over here have discovered a damn good cure for them; pyrene fire extinguisher." Describes a couple of doughboys rubbing the spray from the fire…

[Letter from Wilbur D. Kennedy to Carmelite (Miller) Kennedy, May 27, 1918] (Item)

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 machine gun bullet holes in my plane." Includes a pressed red poppy. Two folded sheets, five handwritten pages, with envelope.

[Letter from Wilbur D. Kennedy to Carmelite (Miller) Kennedy, May 13, 1918] (Item)

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, seven handwritten pages with envelope.