Re: Sharing copies of WWII Documents
This is the diary entry my mother made June 6 1944 - closed the diary is 2"w x 3"Tall, and the letter she wrote to my father after hearing about the invasion of Normandy. Dad had visited her "out of bounds" for a few hours between th 3rd & 4th, she notes that they rowed - probably because he was AWOL, but she has already noted her regret and written him on the 4th. To me it makes her hearing of the invasion and not knowing whether she will see him again, all the more poignant in reading her letter. The day he died in 1996, the letter was found sliced into the lining of Dad's Soldier's Service & Pay Book - which unknown to us - he kept in his bedside drawer. He kept it near him all his life, from the day he received it in 1944 and the next 52 years. Michelle
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