| dc.creator | Bentley, Max | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2020-03-31T17:22:36Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2020-03-31T17:22:36Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 1943-03-11 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://repository.tcu.edu/handle/116099117/38788 | |
| dc.description | Letter from Max Bentley, activities director of the West Texas Chamber of Commerce, to Amon Carter expressing sympathy at the news that his son, Amon, Jr., had been reported missing in action in North Africa. | |
| dc.format.medium | 6x9 paper | |
| dc.relation | Amon G. Carter Papers (MS 014) | |
| dc.rights | Prior written permission from TCU Special Collections required to use any document or photograph | |
| dc.source | Box 141, POW - Capture (March 1-11) 1 of 11 folder, Item 065 | |
| dc.subject | Carter, Amon G., Jr. | |
| dc.subject | Prisoners of war | |
| dc.subject | World War II | |
| dc.title | Letter re: Amon Carter, Jr. | |
| dc.type | Document | |
| dc.description.transcription | March 11, 1943 My dear friend Amon Carter, Here on business for the WTCC. Tonight, at dinner, I read the story that your dear boy is lieting among the missing in the African (illebigle). I have hurried to my room to drop you a brief message of sympathy and affection. Keep your chin up - as I know you typically will! Note Secretary Stimson's statement, that of our more than 2100 casualties from the Rommel push, 2007 are only missing and may get back to our lines. The law of averages holds Amon's chance of safety is 40 to 1. My confident guess is, he is a prisoner of the Nazis, than which there could be many things worse. I know you are rightly proud of that fine boy, as I am of my 2 soldier boys: sons-in-law, one a major and the other a 1st Lieutentant, both of whom are now posed for overseas departure - ready and eager. I send you not only my affectionate regards, but the avowal of my very great admiration for a most useful American andan honest-to-God newspaperman. Faithfully yours, Max Bentley WTCC, Abilene | |
