World War II, 1939-1945 - Letters (SC 2710)

Authors

Manuscripts & Folklife Archives, Western Kentucky UniversityFollow

Publication Date

5-7-2013

Comments

This collection is archived in Manuscripts & Folklife Archives at Western Kentucky University; 270-745-6434; mssfa@wku.edu

Abstract

Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2710. Three letters written by “Tom” to his brother Summers, mother and “Mary,” from May-July 1942. He describes his work at an unnamed location constructing a galley, mess hall and housing, and the hauling of building materials up a hillside using a cable car system called a “kah-vall-ee.” Includes another soldier’s whimsical story about mishaps with the contraption, titled “Kah-vall-ee: The First in a Series of Battery ‘L’ Incidents.”

Disciplines

Military History | United States History

Recommended Citation

Folklife Archives, Manuscripts &, "World War II, 1939-1945 - Letters (SC 2710)" (2013). MSS Finding Aids. Paper 2984.
https://digitalcommons.wku.edu/dlsc_mss_fin_aid/2984