Name/Title
Forkes 1943/04/02 letterEntry/Object ID
2026.1020.52Description
Letter dated April 2/1942, and addressed to Harriet (Mrs. Carl Forkes). There is a cartoon in the bottom left corner of the front page. Letter is mislabeled 1942 and was sent in a 1943 dated envelope. Forkes was not on USS Texas in April of 1942 and was still in training.
Envelope: sent on April 3, 1943, when the ship was in Norfolk, Virginia.Context
Battleship Texas largely escorted Allied ships across the Atlantic from January 1943 to April 22, 1944. She mainly sailed from New York to either the UK, Gibraltar, or Casablanca.
Carl P.J. Forkes enlisted on December 17, 1941, and joined the crew of Battleship Texas on June 30, 1942 as a Sea2c. He became an EM3c in November 1942, advanced to EM2c on April 1, 1943, and transferred off the ship on June 2, 1943.
Ephriam Dickson was the executive director of Battleship Texas Foundation from June 1995 to February 1999. In addition to his duties, he conducted extensive research on and heavily collected items for the crew of Battleship Texas. He later donated his collection back to BTF.
Battleship Texas had her own post office. All mail passed through a censor before leaving the ship. Once the package is checked, it was stamped with a “U.S.S. TEXAS” stamp. If in a port, mail could carry the markers of the post office on shore.Collection
Donation (Ephriam D. Dickson), Historical CollectionsLexicon
Nomenclature 4.0
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LetterNomenclature Secondary Object Term
EnvelopeNomenclature Primary Object Term
CorrespondenceNomenclature Primary Object Term
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Category 08: Communication ObjectsNomenclature Category
Category 06: Tools & Equipment for Communication
