Duane Alexander
Writing from New Guinea, Duane Alexander battles the hot weather and describes one man's inventive laundry methods.

Roy Bergengren, Jr.
Near the war's end, Bergengren, Jr. reflects on lessons learned from the war.

Richard Bong
Bong tells his mother that new orders have come in following the attack on Pearl Harbor. By 1944, Major Bong was the Ace of American Aces and had shot down 40 enemy planes.

Tom Bosclair
In this letter from July 1943, Bosclair describes kitchen duty and speaks positively of the Germans he's met.

Vivian Croake
Vivian Croake graduated from Beloit College and served as a Red Cross hospital recreation worker in Texas and Hawaii from 1943-1946.

Fred Draeger
Fred Draeger joined the Navy in 1942, trained in Waukegan, Ill., and was sent to Memphis, Tenn., for naval aviation ordnance training. He admires the men he works with — men who come from all walks of life.

Paul Fergot
Freshly liberated from Germany's Stalag Luft I, Fergot writes to his wife, just weeks before they are finally reunited.

Thurman Fox
Army Air Forces bombardier describes the stomach-churning experience of searching for a target, firing and observing an attack.

John Jenkins
This letter to co-worker Mary Foster describes the bewildering rituals of military training.

John Warren
In this letter to his wife, Warren shares the pain of losing friends. He also describes the dangers encountered on the road while visiting units as the Red Cross field director with the 90th Division.

Kenneth Worthing
Worthing's letter to his wife, Ruth, does not spare her of his own disgust and anger as he grimly describes Dachau's horrors.

Stewart C. Yeo
Major Stewart Yeo's letter is a first-person account of the attack from someone who was still at home and not on base.