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[Letter from Wilbur D. Kennedy to Carmelite (Miller) Kennedy, January 6, 1918] (Item)

Letter from Wilbur D. Kennedy to Carmelite (Miller) Kennedy, January 6, 1918. Discusses arrival of delayed mail, taking his men for a ten-mile hike, and various personal news. Four handwritten pages with envelope.

[Letter from Wilbur D. Kennedy to Carmelite (Miller) Kennedy, February 16, 1918] (Item)

Letter from Wilbur D. Kennedy to Carmelite (Miller) Kennedy, February 16, 1918. Mentions he is visiting his friend Keith and notes his location as now stationed between Neufchateau (France) and Gondrecourt (-le-Chateau, France). One handwritten page with envelope.

[Letter from Wilbur D. Kennedy to Carmelite (Miller) Kennedy, January 4, 1918] (Item)

Letter from Wilbur D. Kennedy to Carmelite (Miller) Kennedy, January 4, 1918. Discusses shopping trip in town, use of French language to get by, a visit to the YMCA, and personal regards. Two handwritten pages with envelope.

[Letter from Wilbur D. Kennedy to Carmelite (Miller) Kennedy, February 3, 1918] (Item)

Letter from Wilbur D. Kennedy to Carmelite (Miller) Kennedy, February 3, 1918. Discusses change of location, receiving a letter from his mother, and other various personal and social news. Two handwritten pages with envelope.

[Letter from Wilbur D. Kennedy to Carmelite (Miller) Kennedy, January 10, 1918] (Item)

Letter from Wilbur D. Kennedy to Carmelite (Miller) Kennedy, January 10, 1918. Discusses various personal and social news. Four handwritten pages with envelope.

[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 15, 1918] (Item)

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 been removed from the envelope and placed in another folder. Discusses receiving a letter from Keith who is fighting the Battle of Paris and having a…

[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.