- my history
About Metamorphosis
A collection of poetry
Life Forms on Mars
A short story
The War Years
Letters from Home
A recreation of life in Guadalupe, California in 1944 from
comments in letters by my mom to my dad and from personal memories.
To be added later.
The 165 days in the combat zone, Luzon, The Philippines, 1945. A limited recreation of what my dad faced and experienced from whatever comments I can find in letters from him to my mom and from a few memories of comments he made about his war experiences.
When my dad was reassigned to overseas he was in the 274 Rep. Co., 14th Rep. Bu. As of March 26, 1945 his unit became Co. F, 161st Infantry. He saw 91 continuous days of combat in Luzon, the Philippines, from early March into early June 1945. He was rotated to a resting area and was part of the occupation forces in Japan at which time he was assigned to Co. 4, 4th Infantry.
Letters from home
Letters to home
The Souvenirs of War
While basic housekeeping chores seemed to occupy the majority of her time at home, she did have occasional visits from her in-laws as well as from neighbors. Not having a job as she was pretty well tied down to caring for two young infants kept my mother fairly confined to shopping and going to movies at the local cinemas as her primary source of social contact. Being a young and a new parent with her spouse off out of physical contact limited the depth of fulfillment that she had, undoubtedly, expected in her marriage.
However, there were moments to look forward to and the soon expected furlough of my dad from boot camp to join her at year end, hopefully during the Christmas holidays was one such dream within hope of fulfillment.
This is a 2 page letter. To read click on one of the links below. Each page will have a copy of her letter as well as a following reprint on a word per word basis without editing.
November 12, 2007
© Jerry Copeland