Letters Home: The Story of Stanley Grimes in WWII
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Part VIII – Beneath a Falling Sky
We slept in a large room on straw, men and women. At night we did our business in some buckets,…
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Part VII – A Mission in the Mountains
An artillery piece in position not far from the village of Acquafondata. Here it is the same everyday, up at…
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Part VI – Acquafondata
Preface: The small municipality of Acquafondata lay high in the mountains at the nexus of the Winter Line and…
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In Another Country
As has been the case several times during the telling of letters home, the next chapter was one in which I…
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Part V – Africa
Dearest Darling, Just a few lines honey to let you know I am just fine. Hoping you are the same…….
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Part IV – Cristobol
The metal of the long steel prep table was cold on Stanley’s outstretched hands. He looked down at them and…
