Private Collection of T. B. Willis - 7 Matching Results

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[Letter from Captain Merrill Smith to his wife - May 20, 1944]

Letter from Captain Merrill Smith to his wife discussing his mother's bonds in Lockhart.

Date: May 20, 1944

Creator: Smith, Merrill

Item Type: Letter

[Letter from John Todd Willis, Jr. to his Parents, August 20, 1943]

Letter from John Todd Willis, Jr. to his parents Clara and John T. Willis Sr. on August 20, 1943. He included some pictures of the town in North Africa where he was stationed, and apologizes for not being in any of them himself.

Date: August 20, 1943

Creator: Willis, John Todd, Jr.

Item Type: Letter

[Letter from John Todd Willis, Jr. to his Parents, August 20, 1943]

Letter from John Todd Willis, Jr. to his parents Clara and John T. Willis Sr. on August 20, 1943. He tells them about a musician he's going to go see, and mentions that the Arab and French men are eating a new kind of fruit.

Date: August 20, 1943

Creator: Willis, John Todd, Jr.

Item Type: Letter

[Letter from John Todd Willis, Jr. to his Parents, June 20, 1944]

Letter from John Todd Willis, Jr. to his parents Clara and John T. Willis, Sr. on June 20, 1944. Churchill recently said that victory was getting closer, and Willis hopes that he will be home this year or the next spring. A boy from a ranch in Texas spent the night with Willis. He also received a long letter from a friend, Joe S. Lattimore, who said that medical school was difficult.

Date: June 20, 1944

Creator: Willis, John Todd, Jr.

Item Type: Letter

[Letter from John Todd Willis, Jr. to his Parents, March 20, 1943]

Letter from John Todd Willis, Jr. to his parents Clara and John T. Willis, Sr. on March 20, 1943. He reports his arrival in Africa, as well as the delivery of 35 of his parents' letters. He expresses his wish that his friends still in the U.S. would wait as long as they could to join the army, including his cousin Jimmie Kendrick.

Date: March 20, 1943

Creator: Willis, John Todd, Jr.

Item Type: Letter

[Letter from John Todd Willis, Jr. to his Parents, May 20, 1943]

Letter from John Todd Willis, Jr. to his parents Clara and John T. Willis, Sr. on May 20, 1943. He discusses a woman back home who got married suddenly, as well as the son of a friend who came back from Japan recently. He says that Wilbur Crawford is also in Africa, and he wishes they could spend time together.

Date: May 20, 1943

Creator: Willis, John Todd, Jr.

Item Type: Letter

[Letter from John Todd Willis, Jr. to his Parents, October 20, 1943]

Letter from John Todd Willis, Jr. to his parents Clara and John T. Willis Sr. on October 20, 1943. His outfit has been confined to their area because a soldier didn't salute a colonel. He promises to send some pictures home, and asks them to send him another fountain pen and some canned food.

Date: October 20, 1943

Creator: Willis, John Todd, Jr.

Item Type: Letter