If I Don't Come Back...Dad's Letter from WASP

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dc.contributor.author Associated Press
dc.date.accessioned 2018-03-06T15:00:27Z
dc.date.available 2018-03-06T15:00:27Z
dc.date.issued 1942-10-27
dc.identifier.citation "If I Don't Come Back...Dad's Letter from WASP," Associated Press. October 27, 1942. Valdosta State University Archives and Special Collections, Charles Albert Converse Papers, 1939-1940 [ms158er1-019]. http://hdl.handle.net/10428/3037. en_US
dc.identifier.other F6E83244-0D10-4B8B-4BD4-632B739AE2DF
dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/10428/3037
dc.description "If I Don't Come Back...Dad's Letter from WASP," Associated Press. October 27, 1942. Valdosta State University Archives and Special Collections, Charles Albert Converse Papers, 1939-1940 [ms158er1-019]. http://hdl.handle.net/10428/3037. en_US
dc.description.abstract ARLINGTON, Mass., Oct. 27.— (/P)—Jackie Shea, 5 years old, has a letter he never wiil part with— a letter that said, “If I don’t get back. . . It’s from his dad, Commander John J. Shea, 43, last seen fight­ing flames aboard the United States aircraft carrier Wasp, short­ly before the vessel went down under a torpedo attack near the Solomons on September 15. en_US
dc.language.iso en_US en_US
dc.publisher Valdosta State University Archives and Special Collections en_US
dc.relation.ispartofseries MS/158;ER01/019
dc.subject World War (1939-1945) en_US
dc.subject Converse, Charles Albert (1904-1940) en_US
dc.subject Newspapers en_US
dc.subject Converse, Laura Trice (1928-2016) en_US
dc.subject Wasp (Aircraft carrier : CV-7) en_US
dc.subject Letters. en_US
dc.title If I Don't Come Back...Dad's Letter from WASP en_US


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  • Charles Albert Converse Papers, 1939-1940
    The Charles Albert Converse Papers include personal letters Charles wrote to his family while in Great Britain, reports on the evacuation of the U.S. Embassy during the London Blitz, Western Union telegraphs, miscellaneous correspondence, a memorial book from Charles's funeral, and newspaper and magazine clippings.

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