The wartime letters of George T. Butler, written home to his sisters between 1942 and 1945 — from training at Camp Carson, Colorado, across England and France, through Belgium, and into Germany.

63 letters and clippings, photographed and transcribed and placed in the best chronological order we can reconstruct. Each entry shows the original scan beside a readable transcript; uncertain words are marked, and missing pages are noted. It is a family archive, preserved as written.

Read the letters, in order →

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Or read the letters to a particular sister: Ann (23) · Marian (38)