Letter from Joe Olexa to Agnes Van Der Weide, January 21, 1944
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Olexa, Joseph P., “Letter from Joe Olexa to Agnes Van Der Weide, January 21, 1944,” Digital Collections, accessed December 12, 2025, https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/document/44814.
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Letter from Joe Olexa to Agnes Van Der Weide, January 21, 1944
Handwritten V-Mail letter and envelope with transcript by Joe Olexa to Agnes Van Der Weide, dated January 21, 1944. The envelope is sent from Co. L, 26th Infantry A.P.O.-1, c/o Postmaster New York, New York, dated January 30, 1944. In the V-Mail letter, Joe shares the good news that he passed a swimming instructor course and offers to teach Agnes to swim if only she would visit him overseas. He also writes about the V-mail letters he received from his parents and how much they enjoyed meeting Agnes.