Signal Corps Archive:
SC 190508-S - Mail call. It’s the same thrill, whether received in the front lines or at a station somewhere in the states. These men are members of an Engineer unit moving with the front line combat troops. Somewhere in Northern France. 21 June, 1944.
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SC 337278 - Mail call for the 70th Division infantrymen who fought to retake the French town of Wingen after the Nazi counter attack gained control of the town.
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SC 151488 - Mail call is still held, even when on the 34th Infantry maneuvers.
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SC 190598 - In the shelter of their foxhole, two GIs read the latest issue of "Stars and Stripes", and also the the latest mail from home.
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SC 411549 - John F. Fixa, postmaster in San Francisco, and Lt. Col. Charles L. Bodine, Postal Officer at San Francisco Port of Embarkation...
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SC 364373 - Personnel of the Postal Unit of a depot in England sort packages and mail.
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SC 196239-S - S/Sgt. Thomas E. Bohanon, Colman, Texas, of the 132nd Field Artillery Battalion, ogles fruit cake just received in a Christmas package...
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SC 196556 - In Kornelimünster, Germany, Cpl. Lae Zwick, Canton, Ohio, U.S. Army Signal Corps photographer, opens some of the Christmas packages he received from home. 22 November, 1944.
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SC 196443-S - Pfc. Edmund Dill, Cumberland, Md., opens the Christmas package received from his wife. His buddies share the treat. 18 November, 1944.
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SC 196920 - Pfc. George E. Neidhardt, with 9th Army in Germany, opens a holiday package sent from his home. 3116 Diversey Street, Chicago. 1 December, 1944.
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SC 326564 - Infantrymen of Company C, 2nd Bn., 389th Regt., 100th Div., open Christmas boxes while they are waiting for orders to attack the Maginot line. Bitche area, France. 15 December, 1944.
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SC 199090 - T/4 Harry H. Hynes, Box 665, Antlers, Okla., and Pvt. Frank Benicasa, 470 Park Ave., Brooklyn, N.Y., right, read their mail in a barn near the front lines, in Rechrival.
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SC 396909 - S/Sgt. Claude W. Small, of Summit Street, Boothwyn, Pennsylvania, who is serving with the 349th Infantry Regiment of the 88th Division, forgets his drab surroundings as he reads a letter from home.
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SC 396925 - Reading his first mail since moving into frontline position is Sgt. John W. Carter of Gastonia, N.C., Battery C, 616th F.A. Bn., 10th Mtn. Div. 31 January, 1945.
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There is a short break in the fighting and mail is delivered.
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SC 396939 - Four infantrymen read mail received during the fighting on Saipan.