Bascom Walden Sparkman Letters to Wife Eleanor, January 1945-June 1945
- Containers:
- 18.0019 - Box 1, Folder 004
- Scope and content:
This folder contains forty-nine letters covering the time from the border of France and Germany into Germany. A February 18th letter describes local people attending Sunday church and the men immediately afterward proceeding to a beer hall. In the same letter Sparkman mentions listening to a Baptist Chaplain's sermon. A February 27 letter provides observations about Strasbourg, France. In a March 21 letter, Sparkman provides observations of his leave to London. In the April 10 letter, he discusses the Road to Rome included in this collection that he previously mailed to his wife. Sparkman notes his positive observations of WACs and their tough jobs. An April 30 letter describes dejected German POWs. In a May 9 letter Sparkman discusses the end of the war in Europe. The folder ends with a June 21 telegram to his wife announcing arrival to Camp Blanding for discharge.
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- Location of this collection:
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