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

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

Associated Press
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10428/3037
Date: 1942-10-27

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.

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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
    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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