McCoy-Guy family correspondence 1942-1949 McCoy-Guy family correspondence

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McCoy-Guy family correspondence 1942-1949 McCoy-Guy family correspondence

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This collection contains letters related to the family of Sarah Guy of Negley, Ohio. Guy received around 50 letters from her sons, Fidelis and Gerald McCoy, who served in paratrooper regiments during World War II. Other friends and family members wrote to the McCoy brothers and to the Guy family, particularly after January 1945.

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