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

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1942-10-27

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World War (1939-1945) , Converse, Charles Albert (1904-1940) , Newspapers , Converse, Laura Trice (1928-2016) , Wasp (Aircraft carrier : CV-7) , Letters.

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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.

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"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.

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"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.

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Charles Albert Converse Papers, 1939-1940