Elmer & Virginia: A World War II Romance in Letters

Nothing can stop true love, not even World War Two! Elmer Odell and Virginia Schill were high school teenagers from opposite "sides of the tracks" when the history of the Second World War began to be written. As Elmer and his P-51 Mustang fighter flew missions over the battlefields of Europe, he wrote home to his wife, Virginia, a ground-breaking woman newspaper reporter. Their hundreds of letters, excerpted here, bring you harrowing tales of World War II aerial combat, entwined with glimps...