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Friday

19. A Long Letter Home

Friday, May 21, 1943

When the North African campaign ended, I took the time to write long letters home. We had not been able to tell our families much at all over the last six months, but now we were given the okay to describe some of the places we'd seen and things we'd done. The following was published in the Fergus Falls Daily Journal. It was sent to my sister, Lois. If you've been following this blog, this is just a recap of the last 15 months of chaos.







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The Original Diary

The Original Diary
Here is the inspiration and primary source for this entire blog. Note the year for these entries was actually 1943, although Howard was using pages from 1942, as evidenced by the mention of the cities of Morsot and Tebessa and the fact that Howard was still in basic training in Texas in March 1942. He had to be creative with his limited resources and use whatever paper was available, which made researching this project somewhat of a puzzle at first.