In 1943 my father, August F. "Gus" Haferkamp, was drafted into the U.S. Army. In the more than two years that he was away, mainly in Italy, he wrote over a hundred letters home to his parents and sister in Staunton, Illinois, letters that they kept. This blog will include all the letters he wrote home, a few letters his brother Freddy wrote home, and the lone surviving letter he wrote to his wife, my mother, Dora "Dodie" Cool Haferkamp.
Sunday, January 11, 2015
13 July 1944 Bronze Star award
This is the letter that Dad told his mother he had received at the time that he received his Bronze Star ribbon.
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