Therese de Noue letter to Elsie - August 5, 1918
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1918 My dear Elsie The letter I sent you about Powie was somewhat veiled as I was afraid of the censor - [ms illegible: 1wd] you shall know all, just as he told it to me. He was of course distressed to be disqualified as he called it. He said the reason was that when he got up in the air at a certain height he had to turn his machine in a certain way
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been in training for the front for a year and felt he was not good for anything else and was afraid they would put him in an office and he would hate that. I asked him about his work and he where he thought he would be
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all the smart people there
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an excellent place for throat, ear, nose, trouble
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| Title | Therese de Noue letter to Elsie - August 5, 1918 |
| Creator | De Noue, Therese |
| Source | De Noue, Therese. Letter to Elsie. 05 August 1918. Clarke, Powhatan Papers. A0293. Missouri History Museum, Saint Louis, Missouri. |
| Description | Therese de Noue wrote to Elsie about Powhatan H. Clarke's whereabouts. She explained that he had visited Paris, but shad had been unable to get a hold of him since. Clarke served with the 21st Aero Squadron and Labor Bureau A.E.F. during Word War I. |
| Subject LCSH | United States. Army--Aviation; Soldiers--Social conditions--20th century |
| Subject Local | World War I; WWI |
| Site Accession Number | A0293 |
| Contributing Institution | Missouri History Museum |
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| Date Original | August 5, 1918 |
| Language | English |