Raymond Mercer served in the Army Air Corps from 4/18/1941 until 6/4/1945 beginning as a Private and being promoted to a Technical Sgt. He was trained in the United States and worked in shore patrol in the United States and served in New Guinea and the Philippine Islands as an armorer working on guns on the planes , loading ammunition, and keeping the guns in working order. This is a collection of letters from Mercer to his family and from friends to Mercer. Florida: Describes in letters his times at Camp Blanding, Florida, a Hospital in Miami and West Palm Beach.
