Letters from Ralph Valente to Parents Ciro and Mary Valente, January 4, 1944 - October 27, 1944
- Containers:
- 19.0001 - Box 1, Folder 001
- Scope and content:
This folder contains six letters, five v-mail, a notice of change of address, and an empty opened envelope. The first letter was written in Camp Upton, New York, while the rest are posted from Camp Blanding, Florida. The empty envelope was posted from the nearby town of Starke, Florida, and the change of address notice was posted from Fort George G. Meade, Maryland. The first v-mail was written in England, while the remaining v-mails were written in France. In these letters, Valente mentions several activities while in training: gun cleaning, weapons training at the firing range, Valente studying for officer training school, and the nightly routines of his fellow soldiers (shaving, showering, cleaning barracks, etc.). In the v-mails, Valente mentions being transferred to a regular unit as a replacement after being sent to France.
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