WWII Letter Grouping Cards Record Marshall Minnesota Lt. Army Air Corps 425 pieces.
Huge WWII Army Air Force Correspondence lot 450 pieces a little under 9 pounds 425 correspondence pieces and some misc greeting cards, military documents from Army Air Corps Lieutenant Clair J Ryan He was born and raised in Marshall Minnesota. His father was the superintendent of the municipal airport in Marshall. No wonder that he won't up going into the Air Force.
He was written to by quite a number of people, must've been a pretty popular guy. This is a large collection of correspondence Which includes letters to and from his parents, at least 125 from his sweethearts and other gals he knew or met during his service time and and from friends stationed in the military in all forces all over the United States, including sone from a WAC. It appears that he had numerous girls that he met through his military training, and they corresponded it to him often calling him, darling, sweet, all my love, etc June 20, 1943 letter to his father from the military saying that Claire had been selected by classification board for pilot training, United States, Army Air Force Places he was stationed: 93rd C. D(air crew) Black Hills Training Center, Spearfish, SD Squadron 37 S. Santa Anna California Lieutenant Clair J Ryan 0-772511 Casual squadron A1 APO 16537 - A San Francisco, California His lastest correspondence he was was with433rd T. C GP Squadron 67 1944 A/c Claire J.Ryan 17114181 Class 44-C D. All my love, Dearest 28 letters from a gal named Fran in Turlock San Diego area, she addressed him as Sweet. 193 more pieces from all over the country Many from people stationed in the military, both men and women A number of these are on military base stationary All of this correspondence during his military service, no letters to him as a civilian A lot of the envelope covers have stamps that fell off, these got musty in storage, envelopes show wear and stains from storage, letters intact, some have some stains on inside pages.