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5 January 1944
Diamond, Sidney, 1922-1945
to Estelle Spero
Diamond provides commentary on the photographs that he has enclosed.
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11 January 1944
Diamond informs Estelle that he feels surprisingly calm about the prospect of going into battle: "there is only the quietness of heart & body".
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January 1944
Diamond informs Estelle that they are "bon-voyaging again."
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22 January 1944
Diamond describes his "politics" to Estelle.
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6 March 1944
Diamond writes that they are working on maps and overlap. He comments that he doesn't feel "poetic, romantic, jocular".
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29 March 1944
Diamond describes the closest to real fighting that he has experienced.
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25 April 1944
Shimoneck, W.H., fl. 1944
to the 82nd Chemical Battalion
Farewell letter from the departing Lieutenant Colonel. He writes of the battalion's reputation as "a crack outfit."
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August 1943
Diamond informs Estelle that he has been moved "temporarily" from platoon leader to second-in-command of the company. Diamond describes the "mutual friendship" that had arisen between himself and the men that he had trained, saying that his voice...
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September 1. 1943
Diamond informs Estelle that he "must get into combat in the near future", or he'll "rot completely down here".
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22 October 1943
Diamond includes a poem written by one of the men in the company in the letter.
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