Dear Folks: Letters Home From World War II in the South Pacific

Dear Folks is an account of a young Pennsylvania farm boy growing up within the maelstrom of war. Until that first afternoon at navy boot camp, my entire existence was centered around a small, 58-acre farm and the few neighbors within walking distance. That first day my world increased in size about a hundredfold. It continued to grow from our first march to the mess hall to the invasions of the Marshall Islands, Guan, Leyte and Luzon. The war took me through the occupation of Japan with st...