Sidney Towner Phelan letter to mother - August 21, 1918
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August 21, 1918 Dearest Mother, We are in action again. The expected attack is progressing successfully but I suppose the Bosche will claim a victory as they succeeded in bombing and burning a hospital and a church killing many wounded including their own captured wounded and killing a nurse. I am not particularly bloodthirsty but the bombing of hospitals is a little too much. I want to live to see the day when Germany is ruined and laid waste as Northern France has been. Last night Bud Ebersole
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met a Bosche who has two brothers living within four blocks of his home in Cincinnati. Think of those swine having relatives among us. I got a letter from May Birkhead. She has seen Fax and taken him around to see Colonel J. who has promised to arrange for his transfer to this section. It will probably be weeks or even months before he gets here. Tell Val to practice bomb dropping so he can give these swine some of their own medicine. They are getting it now but I want to see them get more. Lots of love, Towner
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| Title | Sidney Towner Phelan letter to mother - August 21, 1918 |
| Creator | Phelan, Sidney Towner |
| Source | Phelan, Sidney Towner. Letter to mother. 21 August 1918. Sidney Towner Phelan Papers, 1899-1960. A1209. Missouri History Museum, Saint Louis, Missouri. |
| Description | Sidney Towner Phelan, a St. Louis, Missouri native, wrote this letter to his Mother while serving as a volunteer ambulance driver in France during World War I. In this letter, Phelan wrote that they were in action again. He described a battle in which the German's burned a hospital, church, and more. |
| Subject LCSH | World War, 1914-1918--France; World War, 1914-1918--Atrocities |
| Subject Local | WWI; World War I |
| Site Accession Number | A1209 |
| Contributing Institution | Missouri History Museum |
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| Date Original | August 21, 1918 |
| Language | English |