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Special Collections -- Correspondence.

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Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

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Ben Byrnes collection of Joshua Randolph Abell WW II letters

 Item
Identifier: 2010-023-1
Content Description

Consists of 27 WW2 handwritten letters and V-mail letters written by Joshua R. Abell, crewman on the USS LST-713 [a Naval tank landing ship commissioned on 7 August 1944. During World War II, LST-713 was assigned to the Asiatic-Pacific theater] to his mother Mrs. J. Earl Abell of Charlottesville, Virginia.

Dates: 1944 - 1945