Letter from Joe Olexa to Agnes Van Der Weide, May 22, 1942
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Olexa, Joseph P., “Letter from Joe Olexa to Agnes Van Der Weide, May 22, 1942,” Digital Collections, accessed December 5, 2025, https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/document/46403.
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Letter from Joe Olexa to Agnes Van Der Weide, May 22, 1942
Handwritten letter and envelope with transcript by Joe Olexa to Agnes Van Der Weide, dated May 22, 1942. The envelope is sent from Co. L, 26th Infantry, A.P.O. #1, Fort Benning, Georgia, dated May 24, 1942. In the letter, Joe writes to Agnes upon arriving at Fort Benning and shares that they will be staying there for five weeks, in a location so remote that the nearest town is 17 miles away.