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NAME: The WW2 letter database

DESCRIPTION:  Letters, prose, poems, drawings mailed by soldiers and other servicemen and women during world war two.

URL: http://ww2.war-letters.com

  1,295 WWII Letters and 92+ WWII Accounts

first person accounts and primary source documents

War Letters
Our simply philosphy
1. Unfiltered:
In order of attainment all letters are displayed on the site, irrespective of their perceived interest.

2. Uncensored:
No letter in part or in full has been removed from our database.

3. Unbiased:
All content on this site is directly from letters. We at war-letters.com do not express a political opinion.

4. Languages:
Although English is the primary language of this site, we are committed to providing our content in other major world languages. Arabic, Chinese, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Portuguese and Spanish. Please check back with us.

5. Free:
All letters are displayed free of charge. Please feel free to use the content of this site for all forms of non-internet based writing, such as newspaper articles, novels or research papers.

We at War-Letters.com do not express a political opinion on the events of the 1st or 2nd world war. We display all letters as they were obtained by us without censorship. As such we would like to advise all readers that some letters do contain material related to nazism, sex and many forms of severe violence.

War Letters
455 Route 306 #1928
Monsey, NY 10952
U.S.A

support@war-letters.com

War Letters is a simple site which aims to database as many old war correspondence letters as possible and to make them freely available online to all web users. With these letters, often photographs, drawings, love poems and other miscellanous objects are included. All of these are scanned and presented in as simple a format as possible. Many times these letters tell a passionate real life love story between a soldier and his sweetheart back home, othertimes its the story of a family thousands of miles appart depeserate to keep in contact and occassionaly its the life of an ambitious soldier seeking a name for himself and interested in documenting his efforts.

Although this site is intended primarly for those doing local historical and ancestoral research, (our site is formatted to suit them), a large bulk of web traffic are world war enthusiasts, novelists seeking new material for a book, veterans interested in rekindling memories and many a romanticists looking for a sad love story to fill their lunch break. We welcome you all.

Nevertheless, all readers should be aware that our site is intended for historical research and therefore all letters must and are displayed in an unfiltered, unbiased and uncensored way. We must advise you that due to the nature of war and people, some content may be offensive to you. Please be cautioned that some material is related to nazism, racism, sex explicit and many forms of extreme violence and death.

All letters in the war letters database are scanned, and transcribed into text form. Although we try to keep the text as accurate as possible, time does not allow us to remove all errors. The text is primarly intended to allow search engines to spider the content of the letters. Therefore instead of relying on this text, we invite you to look at the primary source for yourself, by clicking on the letter page, a magnified version of it becomes available. Any unworded documents such as photos are also included as attractments appearing after the letters. Please check out the referencing page for more information about how letters and attachments are arranged. The site map lists how many pages and attachments were in each envelope along with the date. Preference was given to the date on the letter itself, if this was not available the postmark on the envelope was used.

If you are interested or have a question about any aspect of this website, please do not hesitate to contact us at support@war-letters.com. Please check out the sites philosphy to the far left of the page and our postal address is underneath it. We've added some online web statistics as of June 21st.Click here to them. All that is left to say is Please Enjoy your Reading.

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