Glenn Max Whitacre served in the Army Air Corp during World War 2, aboard a B-24 Bomber, as a Radio Operator/Mechanic and a Gunner. He was inducted in February 1943 and was tragically killed in a mid- air collision in July 1944. He was my Uncle. My brothers and I never knew him, or very much about him. The subject was too painful to be discussed by our grandparents or our father.

In 2016 I had the good fortune to locate the handwritten letters he wrote home to his family. Stored away in a footlocker for more than 70 years. 335 letters describing the day-to-day thoughts, emotions, thrills, and difficulties of being a soldier in training and traveling to distant locations and foreign shores to defend your country. 335 letters of how life was in America in the 1940’s. And 335 letters we never knew existed. Until now.