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Tag: Vin Mauro

A Letter from My Grandfather on VE Day

September 8, 2014

“Some people here make you sick. They act like kids. Are drinking and making merry. N.Y.C. is full of paper (the streets). You boys are the ones to celebrate.” … More A Letter from My Grandfather on VE Day

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From My Grandmother to Her Son, Babe

August 7, 2014

One of the very few letters I have from someone on this side of the Atlantic Ocean. A letter to Babe from his mother. It’s very brief, as all V-mail letters are. … More From My Grandmother to Her Son, Babe

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Babe Sent His Combat Infantryman Badge Home

August 5, 2014

“I am back with my outfit now, so I will be able to send you the things I said I’d send. Naturally, I couldn’t send them from the hospital because I didn’t have them.” … More Babe Sent His Combat Infantryman Badge Home

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At Last! ‘I Am Back With My Outfit Now and Glad of It’

July 30, 2014

This letter is the first solid pronouncement that he’s out of the hospital and back in service — which means he was hospitalized nearly four months. … More At Last! ‘I Am Back With My Outfit Now and Glad of It’

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Babe Replies to a Cable from His Parents

July 16, 2014

We don’t know when this letter was written, but it was postmarked mid-January and he’s still in the hospital from his war wound. Not much else to add. It’s a very short letter. … More Babe Replies to a Cable from His Parents

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Well, Happy and Safe

Letters from an Everyman in WWII Frank D. "Babe" Mauro Born, Oct. 9, 1924 Died, May 4, 1945

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