Soldiers
- World War II Era
- Edward J. Thomas
- Leonard Tomaszewski
- Kenneth R. MacDonald
- Vietnam War Era
- James A. Fortune
- Judith R.
- Rodney C. Morris

Edward J. Thomas - World War II

Dear Ed, Thursday, Jun 24, 1943

I sent a copy of my will to Stanley. Stanley says more people are killed in the war industry than in the Armed Forces. Stanley sees this at his shipyard work in California.

“Secret Weapon”, Stanley says is probably “Bazooka”, lots of talk in the paper. It’s really bad medicine to Nazi tanks. “Radar is another weapon hard on the enemy.

Stanley is amazed at the training with live bullets above you. Stanley talks about his Chevy and tires. He was allowed to get Grade III tires – Retreads.

Grade I – are new tires. Gas rationing is not so bad in California. Meat is scarce. Cheap cuts were 25¢/lb. Now it is 55¢/lb.

Safely Home in Detroit

Go back Go forward

Thanks WBRW TV ~ Washington, Michigan for interviewing me August 14, 2019. As mentioned in my video there are resources you can download, including this army pamphlet of games that soldiers could play.

Army Game Pamphlet

Thanks WTXL Channel 27 ~ ABC Tallahassee, Florida for including my dad's cousin's Leonard Tomaszewski's D-Day account. If you want to hear more and read his story, start here: D-Day.

This website started as a living story of my uncle's service in World War II. I found some 200 plus letters in my late uncle's office he used to run his business after the war, and during his retirement. It was in 2008 that I asked my father (deceased last November 2011) if I could have the letters and look at. In the last eleven years I have painstakingly read, organized and put up this website, that I am proud of.

Letters From A Soldier