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Scrapbook relating to Brunswick, Eberhard and Rhea Deutsch : Scrapbook; Correspondence; Postcard; Newspaper Clippings; Photograph 19420402-19451205

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Marlborough, Wiltshire : Adam Matthew Digital, 2019.
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Adam Matthew Digital (Firm)
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Summary
Description: Black three-ring binder. Red and white sticker label on the spine reads "Bunny's Letters, 1942-1945, the War Years." Wartime correspondence from Brunswick Deutsch (called "Bun" or "Bunny" by his mother) to his stepfather and mother, Eberhard and Mrs. Rhea Deutsch (whom he calls "the Major" and "Monk"), consisting of letters, both handwritten and typewritten, telegrams, and V-mail. Between April 1942 and August 1943, Rhea Deutsch is in New Orleans, Eberhard Deutsch is in Charlottesville, Virginia, and Brunswick is in training in San Antonio; these letters mostly concern news of family and friends, care packages full of clothes and food (such as Louisiana red beans) sent to Brunswick, etc. Brunswick discusses military life, news of family friends, and other matters with his father: including, notably, his distaste at the marriage of a colleague in Texas to a "Mexican gal." On 3 March 1943, Brunswick is promoted to Lieutenant; he is sure that he will be sent overseas to war; he has leave in May of 1943 and will be training for overseas duty after that; Rhea Deutsch was ill and bedridden throughout the spring of 1943, and moved from the house at Richmond into the Pontchartrain Hotel; August 1943, Brunswick divorces his wife, Peggy, with whom he has a child (they have been separated for two years and she is suing for child support); in late August, Brunswick is transferred from San Antonio to Gulfport, Miss.; no letters between October 1943 and January 1944, but by 8 January, Brunswick is "at sea" though he cannot say exactly where. In the spring of 1944, Brunswick sends a series of telegrams telling his mother that he is safe, and to "keep smiling," but nothing more; 16 April 1944, he sends a V-mail from New York; in April 1944, Brunswick is stationed in Mobile; in November 1944, Brunswick is in Charleston, South Carolina, working in Naval Transportation offices at the Fort Sumter Hotel; in the spring of 1945 Brunswick is stationed aboard the U.S.A.T. Florida; July 1945, Brunswick tries to locate his father (in Europe?) but fails to do so; between August and December 1945 Brunswick is in New York; last letters are from December 1945, just prior to his discharge from the Navy and return home, when he learns that his father is now a Colonel.
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Original Version
Reproduction of: Scrapbook relating to Brunswick, Eberhard and Rhea Deutsch 2 Apr 1942 - 5 Dec 1945.
Location of Originals
The National WWII Museum
Copyright Note
Material sourced from The National WWII Museum
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