Letter from Joe Olexa to Agnes Van Der Weide, January 19, 1943
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Olexa, Joseph P., “Letter from Joe Olexa to Agnes Van Der Weide, January 19, 1943,” Digital Collections, accessed December 13, 2025, https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/document/46441.
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Letter from Joe Olexa to Agnes Van Der Weide, January 19, 1943
Handwritten letter and envelope with transcript by Joe Olexa to Agnes Van Der Weide, dated January 19, 1943. The envelope is sent from Co. L, 26th Infantry, A.P.O. #1, New York, New York, dated January 24, 1943. In the letter, Joe writes to Agnes from inside a "fox hole" in North Africa and after receiving letters from her dating back to October. He also forewarns that he may not be able to answer each of her letters, but reassures that he will write to her whenever time permits.