Seventy years ago the US 82nd And 101st Airborne Divisions were still attached to the British 2nd Army in Holland, facing the Germans in the area known as the Island north of Nijmegen in the aftermath of Operation Market Garden. The lines were static but the fighting went on. Dad wrote this letter to Mom on 24 October 1944: Oct 24, 1944 Dearest Jo, Tonight presents the opportunity to listen to some very good music – courtesy Radio Berlin. Too damn bad they have to sandwich their guttural propaganda bologna in with it. You should listen to one of their news broadcasts sometime – its classic... ...Just how much longer this European War will last, nobody can tell – especially me. So far I havent devoted much time to such speculation for I prefer to take it on a day to day basis. However, our boys are anxious for it to end, and daily they are thrusting their bayonets into the dreams Adolf had of World domination. If anyone should be ready to follow more peaceful hobbies, it is these troopers. They are very familiar of with all the earlier big name campaigns in Europe to date. Sicily, Salerno, Naples, Anzio, Cassino, Bizerte – hell all of those places are common knowledge for them. Your big brother is still plying the trade as he did in France at an earlier date – Probably you know more of his activities than I do. It is nearing time for the evenings festivities to begin, so it is best that [I] prepare for it – Love Bub.
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