You can suggest corrections to the following fields for item Letter from Joe Olexa to Agnes Van Der Weide, July 4, 1944.

You can also leave general comments or suggestions in the "comments" section. An administrator will review your contribution.

Thank you for taking the time to improve this site!

Please describe the nature of this correction, or anything about it that we should know. Thanks!

 
Number of rows in "":1

An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource

Current data for Contributor

Number of rows in "":1

An entity primarily responsible for making the resource

Current data for Creator

Olexa, Joseph P.

Number of rows in "":1

A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource

Current data for Date

1944-07-04

Number of rows in "":1

An account of the resource

Current data for Description

Handwritten V-Mail letter and envelope with transcript by Joe Olexa to Agnes Van Der Weide, dated July 4, 1944. The envelope is sent from Det. of Patients, 4187 U.S. Hospital Plant, A.P.O.-152, c/o Postmaster New York, New York, dated July 13, 1944. In the V-Mail letter, Joe writes a brief message to Agnes on the Fourth of July, a day that holds additional significance as the last day they were together before their two years apart. He also writes with the news that he has been awarded the "Purple Heart" medal for being wounded in action and will be sending it home to his family for safekeeping.

Number of rows in "":1

A related resource from which the described resource is derived

Current data for Source

Joseph P. Olexa WWII memoir and correspondence, (RHC-93)


Report a problem with this page