Hays letter to family

dc.creator	Hays, Joseph Warren
dc.date.accessioned	2020-09-02T18:31:23Z
dc.date.available	2020-09-02T18:31:23Z
dc.date.issued	1944-08-03
dc.identifier.uri	https://repository.tcu.edu/handle/116099117/40668
dc.description	Hays thinks he may have to fly but tell family come to Houston anyway.
dc.format.medium	paper
dc.language	en_US
dc.relation	Joseph Warren Hays Papers (MS 159)
dc.rights	Prior written permission from TCU Special Collections required to use any file.
dc.source	Series I, Box 1, Folder 3
dc.subject	World War II
dc.subject	United States Army
dc.subject	United States Army Air Corps
dc.subject	Sheppard Field
dc.title	Hays letter to family
dc.type	Document
dc.description.transcription	[postcard stamp: Harlingen, Texas AUG 3, 2 PM, 1944] From: F/O JW Hays T=64121 H.A.A.F. Pilots Harlingen, TexTo: Mrs. E.A. Hays 512 W. Mulkey Fort Worth 4, Texas 8-3-44Dear FolksI am going to write B’? Gent. H. letter tonight and since one is all I feel up to tonight a card will have to do for home.They are talking about having us fly next Sunday but come on to Houston anyway. We have always managed before so we’d manage again this time. I”ll be in there at 6:00 A.M. or know the reason why. Everything is still fine here and Austin surely was pretty.Love,Joe[photo on front of postcard is a soldier waving and text reads “So we’ll meet again” and at the bottom “Buy more War Bonds”

Joseph Warren Hays Papers [162]
The collection includes a complete set of letters written by Joseph Warren Hays to his family while serving in the Army Air Corps during World War II. The letters detail his aviation training across the United States and his service in Europe toward the end of the war. In his later years, Mr. Hays wrote recollections of his missions over Europe. The collection also includes printed publications, newspaper clippings, a scrapbook, a photograph of Hays, and ephemera.

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