May 7th 1944 "Mom Dearest"

May 7th 1944

I'm having to send yours and Muriel's pictures home to Leona. I hated like all get out to pack them this morning but five pounds of personal belongings won't allow for more than my toilet articles and one or two pair of garments (if they allow them).

I'll bet Mip has been right in her glory there at home. I do hope you got to see her for awhile and get acquainted again. This business of scattered families isn't so hot.

I'm so sorry to hear about Aunt Louise's death and I can imagine how grandma feels about it. I wish I could be with grandma for awhile. I know I could cheer her up, it's so hard for her to see the beauty in life when most of her grand children have been taken so far from her that they can't throw their arms around her and tell her how much we love her.

The past week hasn't yielded any startling news for me to tell. I'm getting down into the routine of surveying and of course there are routine duties to be performed but there's not much to that.

I fired my new carbine Friday and it throws the lead right where I want it to, so I know I can depend on it if some German patrol tries to interrupt our survey party.

Thanks for taking care of the flower situation mom. I do appreciate it.

Take care of yourself mom, I want my mom the same as always when I come home.

Loads of hugs & Kisses
Lu

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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.

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