EDITOR’S NOTE: Below is the last letter Winfred sent home to his sister Margaret before ‘going across’.
Dec. 12, 1943 0990 WM % POSTMASTER NEW YORK CITY, N.Y.
Winfred writes Margaret; he is plenty busy; asks about St. Louis; can only wish he would be home for Xmas; feels he deserves a furlough after a year of training; has not heard from anyone; can’t think of much that would be okay to say; and ends by teasing his cousin Erma.