The following was from a woman whose father fought in WWII...
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Have just found this site - this evening. I was thinking of my Dad, who served with the SAAF and was seconded to RAF during WWII. I was looking for the music "I'll be seeing you" which was a song he loved. He was an awesome dancer and I remembered my parents dancing at various functions. He met and married my mother in Italy where she was nursing for the Queen Alexandra Nursing Corp having nursed in a hospital in London during the Blitz.
They taught me to appreciate the music of their time and it brings back such happy memories. Sadly they have passed to glory, but are forever in my heart. My younger son is hoping to be accepted into the Royal Marines towards the end of the year; he is the spitting image of his Granddad and we are very proud of him.
Thank you for this site - it is a blessing to so many people.
God be with you.
Victoria Preece
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Dear Victoria:
So nice to hear from you. I enjoyed your letter.
It brought back some great memories for me too, for my mom and dad met, dancing at the Grande Ballroom in Detroit, in the 50's. They were both terrific dancers.
May I use your email on the site, on my Letters Page? Let me know.
Do you have any photos from the war of your parents. Would love to see them.
My best to you and yours. Godspeed and good luck to your son.
Warmly,
Marion
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Dear Marion:
I have attached several photos of my parents both on their honeymoon and of course you can use my e-mail on your letter's site.
Do you take after your parents in the dancing talent? Sadly I proved to be useless at ballroom dancing. On the occassions when my Dad danced with me I trod all over his feet. I can still remember his deep sigh almost of sadness. I smile about it now.
Tell me do you know where I can find an easy download of Benny Goodman's "Moonglow"?
Music has a wonderful sense of uniting people from distances and memories charge through the mind as people remember a different time. The song my Dad often sang to me was "Daddy's little girl" and to this day the memory it brings back are filled with joy.
Thank you again for a wonderful website, which I shall be visiting on a regular basis.
This letter was sent to me and also to Armonde Casagrande, 343rd Engineer, and related others....
Greetings Dear Friends,
I just got my hands on a pile of letters that my Uncle George wrote to my mom during the war. I am going through them to try and establish a geographic time line as best I can.. The letters are in amazingly great shape and most can be read easily... Some that were written in pencil are fading but mostly readable...
Armonde, You may be familiar with the 343rd Christmas card attached - it was sent in 1943. He started out at Camp Claiborne Louisiana in the spring of 42. In most of the letters he wasn't able to say where he was but some were from North Africa, Italy and APO 887 (England) and APO 1083 which appears to be a camp in New Jersey? I find it quite interesting that the APO for most all of the letters is 464 which equates to the 344th Engineering Regiment - was it the same for both? His return is always Co, F 343 Engr's.
Anyway, if you can help shed some light on this for me I would appreciate.. I do know that he served under Gen Mark Clark for a time (I think that was Italy) then to Salerno and then apparently France as he makes reference to speaking French...
Hope you are all surviving the "change"... I'll keep my freedom, gun's and money --- others can have the change...
When I upload something new to the site, I usually just post it in the "What's New on the Main Site" section. However because this a TOTALLY (like totally) new, I thought I'd talk about it here too.
I finally uploaded over 2600 WWII Era Posters to our site. Since the collection is so large, I offered them in segments, to make them easier to download and to view.
So enjoy the latest offering from VI Corps Engineers!
new, I thought I'd talk about it here too.
