Vol. 136 No. 47 May 24 2023

Tag: Charles Brooks

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Letters From a Navy Boy – November 11, 1942

August 6, 2014

History, Stories

Tags: Charles Brooks, Letters, Military, Navy, Southeast Colorado, Vance Alfrey, Vilas

As I move many of my dad’s Navy letters to a digital format I will occasionally provide samples as shown below. I picked this one simply because it was from the set of letters from 1942 which I thought was lost. Also most of the language from the letter is original. I changed a couple items […]
Letters Home: The Process for this Project is Developing.

April 13, 2014

Arts, History

Tags: Charles Brooks, Google Docs, How to, Military, Navy

I am beginning the process of what I hope will be transcribing all of my Dad’s letters home from the Navy during WWII. Since I don’t really know what I am doing I thought I would just start. I don’t have a scanner with me so I will be adjusting some things I as […]

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