Letter to Mom July 3rd 1944

Towards the end of getting mom and dad's house ready for sale I found some additional letters from the time period of WWII starting before the August journal entries. Although I was unable to get them published here on the anniversary of when they were written, I want to get started with these to lead into the time of the Journal.

To: Mrs L. M. Winsor Cpl. Luther S. Winsor
1202 Crystal Ave A.S.N. 39829849
Salt Lake City -5- A.P.O. 5384
Utah c/o P.M. New York, N. Y.

Somewhere in England
July 3, 1944
Mom Dearest,
I hope Leona is giving you all the news about me cause of course I spend most of my writing time on her. Mail delivery from here isn't so hot in any form so don't be worried if there is any lapse in my letters.

I've always heard that England was beautiful but it's even better than I imagined. Mom if you've ever had the urge to do a little landscape painting of neatly laid out farms, with hedged borders, and rustic and old but well kept farm buildings and brick houses- This is the place to do it. Five of us were invited out to a lovely old English home and we really enjoyed the warm friendship and atmosphere of the people. Their collection of old oaken furniture (still serviceable as new, copper and brass work and fine china is something I've never before seen. One table is 250 yrs old and that's average.
I love the cool weather here in spite of the frequent showers and if I can just get some mail saying that you are all well and maybe a cable saying that I'm a proud daddy and that Leona is well-I'll be happy-Love Lu

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Oct 25th, Wednesday-Journal Entry-Bombs and Guns

Oct 25-Lellig to Matternach- Tied in with Party 1 on R.R.- Lt Jones & G. S. scared out of house by civilian in sports roadster0 In at noon- Transferring notes to correct notebook all afternoon- O1:20 Big Buzz Bomb barely 200 ft. overhead-going south Thundering 400 M.P.H. Machine guns fire but miss. Buzz Bombs going into 1st Army positions Lu from Rae Hight's book : For quite a while, we surveyed the areas back and forth between and through Belgium, France, Germany and Luxembourg. Though the distances were not great, the continued movement required a certain amount of reorganizing each time. By the end of October we were in the Mompach-Berbourg area of eastern Luxemboug, near the front. It was not long before German shells landed not too far away. Our main reminders that the army was just a few kilometers away were the nightly visits by "Bed Check Charlie," buzz bombs that whizzed overhead each night about midnight. The V-1 flying bomb...

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Welcome to Winsor War Notes, the experiences of Luther Snow Winsor in World War Two. Subscribe to experience the day by day journal entries published on the matching day of the year for the time of his deployment to Europe and the Battle of the Bulge. Entries will include scans of the pages of his handwritten notes made at the time with a transcription and pertinent sections of the history he wrote later using these notes to jog his memories. The idea of this project is to publish and read the entries on the days of the year that they were originally written so we can get a feel for the weather setting and of the passage of time as it passed for him as he had these experiences. I will include relevant photos where possible. I suggest viewing Band of Brothers and Saving Private Ryan if you want a more graphic sense of what he was experiencing. He said that Saving Private Ryan was very realistic to his memories and Band of Brothers depicts many of the same kinds of things ...

November 4th 1945 Embarkation! Headed Home on the USS Westerly Victory ship

Watch for Lu's binoculars in many of his photos. They might be his best used acquisition from the war. This mimeographed newsletter is an interesting view into the voyage home.

Winsor War Notes-Luther Snow Winsor's WW II experiences

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