'I do not think we can hope for any better thing now.
We shall stick it out to the end, but we are getting weaker of course, and the end cannot be far.
It seems a pity, but I do not think I can write more. R. SCOTT.
Last Entry - For God's sake look after our people.'
In memory of Capt. Robert Falcon Scott, Edward Wilson, Henry Bowers, Lawrence Oates and Edgar Evans. South Pole Expedition, 30th March 1912.
Letter dated Monday 8, 1943 (no month). Postmarked Newport News, VA, February 9, 1943. This one is fairly easy to read so I didn't transcribe it to the thread.
Another WWII era letter, postmarked December 15, 1943, Camp Davis, North Carolina. To a Mr. and Mrs. Morris Kidd, Charlottesville, Virginia. From a Cpl. Samuel Cook, Jr., Battery B, 584th AAA.
Wow! What a find. Play special attention to the diaries. I was able to trace my grandfather's march to liberation by the clues he left in his.
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