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Avery, Charles Franklin

This collection contains letters from Private First Class Charles Avery to his sister Ruth Dunlap in Pocono Pines, Pennsylvania during and immediately after World War II. Charles writes about the training and attending school at the University of Connecticut while in the Army, health problems in his family, the leisure activities available to him, a little about his combat experience, and the death of his mother. During the war he trains in Virginia (Camp Pickett), North Carolina, and Louisiana, before going overseas and fighting on the front lines in Germany as a member of the 78th "Lightning" Division Infantry.

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Correspondence Box 1, Folder 3

Five letters, one from February, three from April, and one from May. After passing his tests, Charles is transferred to the 78th Infantry Division, called the Lightning Division. Discussion begins of whether he will be shipped overseas soon.

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Correspondence Box 1, Folder 4

Five letters, two from June and three from July. Charles talks about whether the 78th will be going overseas soon, Charles being advanced to the rank of Private First Class, and how training is going.

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Correspondence Box 1, Folder 5

Six letters, four from August, one from September, and one circa September. Letters involving training, a flare-up of tonsillitis, and spending time with Ang in Philadelphia where she has taken a job as a teacher.

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Correspondence Box 1, Folder 6

Five letters, two from September and one from October before shipping overseas, one from November in England and one from December in Germany. When in Germany, Charles is seeing active combat on the front lines.

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Correspondence Box 1, Folder 7

One letter from a rest camp in the Netherlands in December and four from the front in Germany, December 1944 to January 1945. Includes letters about paying his dentist bill, meeting people from back home who are in the army now, and setting up a joint bank account with Ang.

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