Paris, January 15, 1945

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I really don't know the significance of the news paper clipping found with this letter, as Paul does not make mention of it in the letter. I included it as thought it was interesting to get a very small glimpse of life back during the war.

August 31, 1944

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This V-Mail letter was in the same envelope as the previous posting. I do not have any of the letters that Paul wrote while in the hospital. I assume these letters have been lost. As of this post, I have no information on why Paul was in the hospital. I am reading these letters as I post them, so maybe in a future letter there will be some enlightenment.

I think for this era, it was pretty high tech to send recordings. I imagine this was quite a popular business back 'home'. With resources short, I bet this was quite costly. Here we have a glimpse of how the family back home felt about their men over seas.

To learn more about V-MAIL click the wikipedia link below:

V-Mail