Zeddie P. Barron Letters to Wife, October 1945

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Box 07.0077 - Box 2, Folder 003

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Barron again fills most of his letters with reports on his day and speculation about his return home. He mentions that Polish displaced persons are being sent home, but they are resistant and are sporadically rioting. Barron expects that they will have to be forced onto the trains. He is flatly disgusted and resentful of the Poles. He says that "war has not done this to these people, they were just built this way." He is again passed up for departure on the 8th, this time in favor of men 35 years or older, again regardless of points. He reports seeing men with as few points as 65 departing every day, yet he is repeatedly passed up despite having 77 points. He elaborates on his experience crossing the Atlantic for Ireland two years earlier: he departed from the 34th Street Pier in New York City and during the crossing two ships and one Catalina flying boat were destroyed by German submarines.

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