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Scope and Content: This collection is composed of Herbert Bilus’s letters to his parents and his sister Shirley and brother-in-law Ed Neuman during his service in World War II. There is one box in the collection containing four folders which cover, respectively, 1942 to September 1943, October 1943 to December 1943, January 1944 to May 1944, and June 1944 to October 1944. The letters are written on regular stationary, as well as on V-mail. His letters mostly contain reassurances to his family and comments on...

Scope and Content note: This collection is composed of Herbert Bilus’s letters to his parents and his sister Shirley and brother-in-law Ed Neuman during his service in World War II. There is one box in the collection containing four folders which cover, respectively, 1942 to September 1943, October 1943 to December 1943, January 1944 to May 1944, and June 1944 to October 1944. The letters are written on regular stationary, as well as on V-mail. His letters mostly contain reassurances to his family and comments...

Abstract:

Over 800 World War II letters exchanged by Lawrence J. Perrotta, an American soldier who served in Europe, his wife Yolanda Perrotta (nee Liloia), and other family members and friends in Nutley, Essex County, N.J. The collection includes a handwritten journal compiled by Yolanda after Lawrence's death in 1992 in which she recalls anecdotes and events from throughout her life in Nutley.