Veterans War Memorial Building
401 Van Ness Avenue. Rm.100
San Francisco, CA 94102
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Letters
Over 125 WWII
letters from a US marine who went through training
in 1943 and served on the USS SAN FRANCISCO. What a
vivid view of how our marines felt in those times
and how much their families meant to them. They are
all from a man named Walden Thompson. I read many of
the letters and it made me really think about our
young men and women that are currently serving our
country and what they must be going through. There
are many envelopes that have Air Mail 6 cent stamps
and one stamp that I have never seen before, It
reads “HURRY UP THIS IS FROM A MARINE”. They are in
good condition for the age and mostly post stamped
from Sept. 1943-1944.
"Here
are a 2 souvenir pieces of WWII comes with a letter
that describes them! The one with the hole comes
from the lower section of the aft smoke stack on the
U.S.S.San Francisco it reads Oct 14,1942 and
Solomons Isls.on the back,the letter writer says he
stenciled it and bronze coated it ,the other piece
of brass or whatever is a piece of a Japenese shell
the was found on the destroyer U.S.S.Shaw. These
are what they are I have no way to authenticate
them,that look real to me. A interesting piece of
American Military history."
