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The focus of this website is to display the original handwritten letters of Glenn Max Whitacre. It’s designed for the reader to use as a guide to the transcriptions contained within the book series, “I’m in the Army Now, World War 2 Letters of Glenn Max Whitacre” volumes 1 and 2.
I believe that offering this website would be a very significant, intriguing, and enjoyable addition to the book series. In the transcribed letters, many times my Uncle notes the type of letterhead he’s using, the variations in his writing styles, and always his terrible penmanship. Which on occasion, truly needs to be seen to be believed. It is my intension that by making these images available it will enhance the experience for the reader.
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.
