Pages:
Short Stories:
- Mercy or Mission – June 1944
- Beach Mission Preparing for the Mindoro Invasion – December 1944
- Easter Mourning – April 1945
Letters:
- 18 September 1941
- 23 September 1941
- 24 September 1941
- 26 September 1941
- 1 October 1941
- 9 October 1941
- 13 October 1941
- 15 October 1941
- 17 October 1941
- 20 October 1941
- 25 October 1941
- 25 October 1941
- 2 November 1941
- 3 November 1941
- 9 November 1941
- 14 November 1941
- 17 November 1941
- 23 November 1941
- 30 November 1941
- 2 December 1941
- 5 December 1941
- 7 December 1941
- 8 December 1941
- 10 December 1941
- 15 December 1941
- 18 December 1941
- 20 December 1941
- 29 December 1941
- 10 January 1942
- 18 January 1942
- 19 January 1942
- 21 January 1942
- 27 January 1942
- 8 February 1942
- 15 February 1942
- 26 February 1942
- 8 March 1942
- 18 March 1942
- 22 March 1942
- 5 April 1942
- 10 April 1942
- 10 April 1942
- 16 April 1942
- 21 April 1942
- 24 April 1942
- 25 April 1942
- 25 April 1942
- 27 April 1942
- 28 April 1942
- 3 May 1942
- 9 May 1942
- 11 May 1942
- 11 May 1942
- 18 May 1942
- 22 May 1942
- 31 May 1942
- 10 June 1942
- 13 June 1942
- 22 June 1942
- 23 June 1942
- 30 June 1942
- 2 July 1942
- 8 July 1942
- 10 July 1942
- 13 July 1942
- 16 July 1942
- 22 July 1942
- 29 July 1942
- 1 August 1942
- 6 August 1942
- 11 August 1942
- 15 August 1942
- 17 August 1942
- 18 August 1942
- 21 August 1942
- 17 September 1942
- 20 September 1942
- 30 September 1942
- 1 October 1942
- 3 October 1942
- 6 October 1942
- 8 October 1942
- 10 October 1942
- 12 October 1942
- 13 October 1942
- 17 October 1942
- 20 October 1942
- 21 October 1942
- 22 October 1942
- 24 October 1942
- 29 October 1942
- 1 November 1942
- 2 November 1942
- 5 November 1942
- 7 November 1942
- 13 November 1942
- 16 November 1942
- 22 November 1942
- 23 November 1942
- 27 November 1942
- 28 November 1942
- 3 December 1942
- 7 December 1942
- 9 December 1942
- 10 December 1942
- 15 December 1942
- 16 December 1942
- 19 December 1942
- 20 December 1942
- 22 December 1942
- 25 December 1942
- 28 December 1942
- 2 January 1943
- 4 January 1943
- 7 January 1943
- 12 January 1943
- 14 January 1943
- 26 January 1943
- 26 January 1943
- 28 January 1943
- 31 January 1943
- 2 February 1943
- 3 February 1943
- 9 February 1943
- 11 February 1943
- 17 February 1943
- 18 February 1943
- 23 February 1943
- 24 February 1943
- 6 March 1943
- 16 March 1943
- 17 March 1943
- 20 March 1943
- 23 March 1943
- 26 March 1943
- 31 March 1943
- 3 April 1943
- 7 April 1943
- 10 April 1943
- 16 April 1943
- 22 April 1943
- 27 April 1943
- 4 May 1943
- 7 May 1943
- 10 May 1943
- 13 May 1943
- 19 May 1943
- 31 May 1943
- 9 June 1943
- 12 June 1943
- 26 June 1943
- 2 July 1943
- 7 July 1943
- 10 July 1943
- 15 July 1943
- 21 July 1943
- 24 July 1943
- 28 July 1943
- 3 August 1943
- 8 August 1943
- 10 August 1943
- 17 August 1943
- 19 August 1943
- 1 September 1943
- 11 September 1943
- 18 September 1943
- 20 September 1943
- 26 September 1943
- 4 October 1943
- 8 October 1943
- 13 October 1943
- 19 October 1943
- 29 October 1943
- 5 November 1943
- 28 November 1943
- 30 November 1943
- 6 December 1943
- 26 December 1943
- 28 December 1943
- 31 December 1943
- January 1944
- 10 January 1944
- 18 January 1944
- 25 January 1944
- 26 January 1944
- 31 January 1944
- 10 February 1944
- 11 February 1944
- 17 February 1944
- 28 February 1944
- 3 March 1944
- 10 March 1944
- 16 March 1944
- 21 March 1944
- 2 April 1944
- 5 April 1944
- 7 April 1944
- 12 April 1944
- 17 April 1944
- 18 April 1944
- 19 April 1944
- 26 April 1944
- 28 April 1944
- May 1944
- 10 May 1944
- 14 May 1944
- 14 May 1944
- 23 May 1944
- 27 June 1944
- 29 June 1944
- 6 July 1944
- 7 July 1944
- 10 July 1944
- 15 July 1944
- 17 July 1944
- 18 July 1944
- 18 July 1944
- 24 July 1944
- 26 July 1944
- 28 July 1944
- 7 August 1944
- 8 August 1944
- 12 August 1944
- 16 August 1944
- 20 August 1944
- 26 August 1944
- 31 August 1944
- 7 September 1944
- 12 September 1944
- 14 September 1944
- 16 September 1944
- 20 September 1944
- 5 October 1944
- 8 October 1944
- 10 October 1944
- 12 October 1944
- 20 October 1944
- 21 October 1944
- 25 October 1944
- 30 October 1944
- 5 November 1944
- 7 November 1944
- 9 November 1944
- 20 November 1944
- 9 December 1944
- 20 December 1944
- 21 December 1944
- 23 December 1944
- 26 December 1944
- 29 December 1944
- 30 December 1944
- 10 January 1945
- 10 January 1945
- 11 January 1945
- 15 January 1945
- 17 January 1945
- 21 January 1945
- 24 January 1945
- 27 January 1945
- 2 February 1945
- 7 February 1945
- 8 February 1945
- 10 February 1945
- 14 February 1945
- 16 February 1945
- 17 February 1945
- 18 February 1945
- 21 February 1945
- 24 February 1945
- 27 February 1945
- 28 February 1945
- 6 March 1945
- 7 March 1945
- 20 March 1945
- 23 March 1945
- 7 April 1945
- 11 April 1945
- 13 April 1945
- 15 April 1945
- 16 April 1945
- 17 April 1945
- 20 April 1945
- 21 April 1945
- 22 April 1945
- 23 April 1945
- 24 April 1945
- 26 April 1945
- 28 April 1945
- 1 May 1945
- 4 May 1945
- 5 May 1945
- 6 May 1945
- 7 May 1945
- 9 May 1945
- 10 May 1945
- 11 May 1945
- 12 May 1945
- 13 May 1945
- 19 May 1945
- 20 May 1945
- 22 May 1945
- 23 May 1945
- 24 May 1945
- 27 May 1945
- 1 June 1945
- 3 June 1945
- 4 June 1945
- 11 June 1945
- 16 June 1945
- 17 June 1945
- 22 June 1945
- 24 June 1945
- 26 June 1945
- 28 June 1945
- 2 July 1945
- 3 July 1945
- 6 July 1945
- 7 July 1945
- 8 July 1945
- 15 July 1945
- 16 July 1945
- 21 July 1945
- 22 July 1945
- 23 July 1945
- 27 July 1945
- 29 July 1945
- 3 August 1945
- 5 August 1945
- 11 August 1945
- 14 August 1945
- 17 August 1945
- 23 August 1945
- 27 August 1945
- 30 August 1945
- 3 September 1945
- 6 September 1945
- 7 September 1945
- 11 September 1945
- 14 September 1945
- 21 September 1945
- 17 October 1945
Categories:
- 20-30 Club
- Address change
- Aid station
- Air Corps
- Air raids
- Ancestor worship tombs
- Anticipation going home
- Apathy at home
- Arden Conklin
- Armed Forces Institute
- Armistice Day celebration
- Army advancement
- Artie Shaw
- Aslitho airfield
- Assistant Battery Clerk
- Athletics
- Atsurge Airfield
- Aunt Bessie
- Aunt Edna
- AWOL
- Bad car accident
- Band
- Baseball
- Bathing
- Battalion insignia description
- Battalion newspaper
- Bedcheck Charlie
- Bedpan Charlie
- Beer
- Bend Oregon
- Betty Sue Myers
- Bill Dick
- Bill Emick
- Billet room
- Blackhawk Division
- Blackouts
- Blizzard
- Bob Haris
- Bob Hope
- Bob Meyers
- Bob Redding
- Bob Wright
- Bobby Riggs
- Bolo knife
- Bombardment on L-Day
- Bombings
- Books
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- Cadre
- Camp Callan
- Camp Roberts
- Captain Olson
- Carlsbad California
- Cats
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- Chamorros
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- Chemical warfare
- Christmas
- Church
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- Claude Thornhill Band
- Cliff Blount tent buddy
- Clifford Teiser
- Coke
- Communications detail
- Construction
- Convent visit
- Cost of things
- Costs/money
- Cot
- Crossword puzzles
- Dad's store
- Dan Gettman
- Dances
- Date
- Day passes
- Dear Dad Moss
- Dear Dick Moss
- Dear Grandma Waid
- Dear Mom Moss
- Dear Nancy Moss
- Dear Phil Moss
- Delay leaving Okinawa
- Demobilization
- Dengue fever
- Dental
- Dick Moss
- Drafted into the army
- Duane Carroll
- Duck
- Eagle Cafe incident
- Easter
- Eleanor Roosevelt
- Entertainment
- Episcopal Cathedral in Honolulu
- Ernie Pyle
- Escondido California
- European front news
- Everly Gibbons
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- Farming opportunities
- Fatality
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- Flies
- Foreign money
- Fort Leavenworth Kansas
- Fort Lewis Washington
- Fort Logan Colorado
- Fort Shafter
- Fourth of July
- Foxhole
- Fred Meyers
- Free Press hometown news
- Free time travel
- Fresh fruit
- Frustration
- Furloughs
- Garapan Saipan
- Garrison theater
- General Halsey
- General Hodge
- General Stilwell
- George Butler
- Germany's unconditional surrender
- GI antics
- GI ingenuity
- Gi talent show
- Gladys Davis (Johnson)
- Glen Chambers
- Golf
- Grandparents
- Gratitude
- Gray Field
- Guard duty
- Guyla Steele
- Haircut
- Hangover
- Harold Bill Wright
- Hawaiian home description
- Hawaiian landscape/description
- Helen Barton Hartnett
- Helen Emick
- Helen Wood
- Hit Parade
- Hitchhiked
- Homesickness
- Honolulu
- Iolani Palace
- Issued clothing
- Jack Conklin
- Jack Lewellen
- Jack Lupher
- Japanese attack
- Japanese boys removed
- Japanese caves
- Japanese enemy
- Japanese Propaganda
- Japanese suicide divers
- Japanese surrender
- Jay Echelberger
- Jim Halsey
- Jim Sandison
- Joe E. Brown
- Johnnie
- Johnny Hirasawa
- Judge Case
- Jungle Center
- Kathryn Aulick
- Katie Moss Creal
- Kenny Miller
- Killing
- KP duty
- Lana Turner
- Land crab
- Laundry
- Law books
- Lawrence Vold
- Lieutenant General Danford
- Lights
- Living quarters
- Loyd and June
- LST
- Luau
- Mail orderly
- Major Bowers
- Malaria medicine
- Mark Gardner
- Mary Bohm
- Mattie Scott
- Medical
- Mildred Roberts
- Military daily life
- Military food
- Military training
- Miss Van Tempksi
- Mobile library
- Model airplane hobby
- Money from home
- Money home
- Morse Code radio operator
- Mosquitoes
- Mother's Day
- Movies
- Mrs. Carroll
- Mrs. Conklin
- Mrs. D. A. Grove
- Mrs. Davis
- Mrs. Dick
- Mrs. Hartnett
- Mrs. Lewellen
- Mud
- Naha
- Nancy Moss
- National Geographic
- Needles California
- New inductees
- Newsweek
- Night classes
- Noba
- Norwegian bus lady
- Nurses aide
- Office
- Okinawa battle ended
- Okinawa description
- Omaha friend
- Pacific front
- Packages from home
- Packages to home
- Parent vacation
- Parents relief end of war
- Paso Robles California
- Pass
- Pat Moss
- Pay
- Pearl Harbor attack
- Peeved
- Personal diary journal
- Personnel Center
- Personnel Sergeant
- Phil Moss
- Phone call home
- Photographs
- Pictures
- Pines for
- Point system
- Poker
- Postcard
- Postwar dreams
- Prairie fire
- President Roosevelt
- Prisoners of war natives
- Promotion
- Purkey Berg
- PX
- Radio news
- Radio training
- Rain
- Ranger course
- Rationing
- Rations
- Reader's Digest
- Red Cross
- Redding California
- Regrets
- Requests for items
- Roller skating
- Rotations
- Sage boys
- Saipan description
- Saipan history
- Saipan Post Displatch
- Service club
- Shakespeare
- Sharon Pennsylvania
- Shirley Carroll
- Shirley Heldt
- Shorthand
- Showers
- Shuri
- Sorry
- South Seas description
- Special Services show
- Star Herald
- Surfing
- Survey school
- Swedish California couple
- Swindell
- Symphony
- Taft
- Telegram
- Thanksgiving menu
- Time magazine
- Tinian description
- Tokyo Rose
- Tradewinds rec center
- Tragedy
- Train ride
- Trans-Pacific radio telephone
- Transportation
- Transportation home
- Trigonometry class
- Troop movement
- Troop train
- Typhoon
- US Bonds
- USO
- Utah National Guard battalion
- Vic Sage
- Violin
- Volleyball
- Walkie talkie
- War devastation
- War insurance
- War predictions
- War preparations
- War souvenirs
- Weather
- Willis Nichols
- World Series
- Worries
- Wrist watch
- Wylma
- XXIV Corps
- Yakima Washington
- Yontan Airfiled
- Zero Hour
Hi there – I just read the NY Times article and found your site. SO inspiring; thank you so much for doing this!
Question: Is it possible to purchase a book with all of the letters compiled so far? My Dad would love this, but prefers to read via paper, not online.
Thank you very much,
Susan Dunn
Thank you for visiting our website. At this time there is no book of these letters but if you would register on our mailing list, we will contact you when it comes available. I understand the value of hard copies, especially to the older generation.
This is a wonderful archive – thank you for sharing this with the world. One small point, I think you’re use of spend-thrift is incorrect – I think you were intending to state the opposite.
Thanks again
You are correct. Dad was very frugal, not a spend-thrift. I thank you for bringing this to our attention.