MS-0377-10-03

Letter from Robert G. Kelly, 1945

 

08/14/1945

Kelly, Robert G.

 

"I'm intoxicated with history," Kelly writes, on the day Japan announced its surrender. He reflects on his war experiences, and what keeps "shaking my basics." He has "found I must be more cautious whom I despise," that everything has a "false front," describing a black market in which "the most important things in Germany are coffee, tobacco, tea, food & soap--in about that order" and servicemen trade government equipment for private profit.

Bob Kelly; European theater of operations; ETO; United States Army; H. V. Kaltenborn; Radio during World War II

 

Germany - Hesse - Frankfurt am Main

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MS-0377

English

 

Letter

6 inches X 9 inches; 8 pages

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