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Jack H. King Donation CollectionScope and Content
A handwritten January 1943 diary of a trip an Army wife takes to St. Augustine, Florida to meet her soldier husband. He gets furlough and they travel back to Minneapolis together. It contains 13 1/2 pages that cover January 14-22, 1943. She is alone at first, traveling by bus. Her first entry is shows her amazement at the fresh fruits, vegetables and orange juice for sale since it is winter. There are many accounts of life in wartime America with mention of the WAACs, blackout curtains blacked out street lights soldiers everywhere, Coast Guard boats training as well as planes training in the skies over Florida. She writes of Jacksonville, Florida; of exploring St. Augustine's slave market, the Fort, the churches, the Alligator and Ostrich Farm.Collection
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Date(s) of Creation
1943 - 1943