Bill and Dorothy's Love Letters

Army Air Forces Shepherd Field, Texas official address Pvt. W. K. WHITCOMB A. S. N. 37576695 304th training group Squadron 15 Bks. 606 November 6, 1943 Dear Dorothy, The other day Jean wrote and told me that I was to write to you and tell you about myself for a class letter or paper, but like a true woman she didn’t give me your address. I had to ask her for it before she would give it to me and so I got it this evening. Last week John Loehlin wrote and asked for information about me. I see that you and he are going to the same college so therefore I see both of you are working towards the same goal in getting out a class letter. I getting to enjoy Army life now all the time. I guess it is because I’m getting used to it. It amounts to a drill class all day long. I guess I haven’t learned yet what is all leading to. As far as I know I am still a cadet, but anything might happen at any time and wash me out. If so I will be classified as a radio g...

Dorothy and Bill: Their Letters                 This collection of letters was written between 1943 and 1947, by Mary Dorothy Vaugh and Bill Whitcomb.   They were childhood acquaintances, living in India with missionary parents, and attending the same school, Woodstock in Mussoorie, India,   from kindergarten through 12 th grade.   They began in different classes but Bill was moved to Dorothy’s class which ultimately was the class of 1942, graduating just at the United States entered World War II.    Their first meeting, that we know of, was in 1929 when Billy 5, and Dorothy 3, appear in this photo.   They are pictured together in a group of North India Presbyterian missionaries in 1929 posing in front of Kellogg Church in Mussoorie, India.   Billy’s   There are over 100 people in the photograph, with around 20 children, and somehow Dorothy and Billy end up sea...