Here are a few of the soldiers I have letters from.

70 short years ago, we set off the first nuclear bomb against humanity. Though it did save American lives, it was certainly the start of a different era for mankind.

Shown are some of the people (mostly women my dad told me) putting together the wiring for the B-29 Bomber. Dad was in charge of the electrical wiring that was done in Detroit. He would visit the assembly lines often.

Two things I remember him telling me about the electrical wiring. One was it was mostly women doing the work at Hudson Motors of which my dad was a chief engineer & two the wiring was connected by crimping much the same as is done today by most of us shade tree mechanics when we wire our car trailers or work on the electrical wiring of our cars, boats & recreational vehicles.

Here is a link to the D-Day event. D-Day Activities Tallahasse, Florida

And here is a link to the audio recordings of Leonard & myself about his 2nd Wave landing on Omaha Beach. Leonard Tomaszewski ~ D-Day

I much rather get new photos and new letters than a check or cash for this site. I can use the pictures and the letters and create more pages and keep the stories going.

But I can’t pay my bills, keep my web hosting and otherwise avoid the tax collector, DSL provider and otherwise take care of my family.

So I am hoping to get some donations to keep this site free, just like the subject of my website is, the letters from soldiers who fought to keep our way of life the way it is, free.

My uncle’s cousin Leonard recalled his role, 2nd wave on Omaha Beach. http://www.lettersfromasoldier.com/leonard_tomaszewski/leonard_tomaszewski_d_day.php

This 89 year old Holly, Michigan man’s story is a MUST see in our Memorial Day Weekend. David H. Langley was at the scene when the famous picture of the soldiers raising the flag on Iwo Jima in February 1945.

Iwo Jima is a small island in the Pacific between the islands of the Allies in Saipan & Tinian & Japan. It is named after the Japanese word “Iwo” for Sulphur. Yellow sulphuric acid rises as a mist, giving that distinct ‘rotton eggs’ smell soldiers would routinely sense.

Iwo Jima was first bombed in Nov. 1944 and it was the Allies plan to gain possession of this small but strategic island. The airfield they could use as a refueling point for bombing missions in Japan made this ‘speck’ of land a ‘giant’!