White, Frank B., 1915-1999 Frank and Jean White Collection [Decimalized .001-.286]
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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC09855 Author/Creator: White, Frank B., 1915-1999 Place Written: Various Places Type: Header Record Date: 1939-1945 Pagination: 324 items Order a Copy
A collection of 276 letters, 12 greeting cards, 10 newspaper clippings, 9 photographs, 5 photograph negatives, 3 sketches, 2 menus, 1 document and 1 postcard. The letters were exchanged between World War II Marine Frank B. White, and his wife L. Jean White in Maryland. Frank served as a Marine in the Pacific Theater as part of the Fourth Marine Division. The letters start in October 1939 while Frank and Jean were dating, and Frank was working as a police officer in Baltimore. They stop in May of 1940, and pick back up in February 1943. The letters continue throughout World War II ending in November 1945 with a letter from Jean to Frank as she waits for him to arrive home at the end of the war.
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