| dc.creator | Anderson, Gabe D., Jr. | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2020-04-13T14:31:27Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2020-04-13T14:31:27Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 1943-04-03 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://repository.tcu.edu/handle/116099117/39433 | |
| dc.description | Letter from Gabe D. Anderson, Jr. to Amon Carter providing more information on his son, Amon, Jr., who had been reported missing in action in North Africa. | |
| dc.format.medium | 4.75x8 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 (April 1-11) 7 of 11 folder, Item 019 | |
| 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 | Africa April 3, 1943 Dear Mr. Carter, This is a letter I have been wanting to write for several weeks, but have waited until I felt sure you had been notified by the War Department that Amon Jr. was listed as missing in action. Amon's battery commander has probably already written you and given you all the details. But since Amon Jr. is one of the best friends I will ever have and has done me so many favors, such as cabling my parents on several occasions to let them know I was all right, I feel as though I should give you what little information I have. As you probably know the 27th came to North Africa with the first echelon in early November. So, I never did get to see Amon after he arrived here. But I did receive several letters from him and we had planned to get together at about the time Rommel made his unexpected drive. Our outfit was about thirty miles north of his at that time. I don't want to create a feeling of over optimism but I have done quite a bit of inquiring, and feel in my own mind that Amon has been captured and is unharmed. Quite a few officers and men were cut off by the fast German push. Some of them had communications with their organizations for two days afterward. I was talking to an officer that walked out. He told me that sometimes he would be walking alone and at other times with as many as two hundred men. He walked for three days and nights and said the German lines seemed to be moving up just ahead of him, and that many groups of a hundred men or more were captured when they were spotted by the Germans. As far as he knew very few, if any, had been killed. From the information I got from some of the officers in Amons battalion, he was on an O.P. when the tanks came in and just didn't have time to get out. They seemed to all think he had been captured. I hope I am not building up any false hopees for you, Mr. Carter, and that by the time you receive this you will have been notified that Amon is a prisoner of war and is safe and well. Sincerely yours, Gabe D. Anderson Jr. | |
