Lee Howard Watson papers, 1944-2004.

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Lee Howard Watson papers, 1944-2004.

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Consisting of three World War II letters, 17 July, 8 and 17 Aug. 1944, written to Miss Lee Howard of Greenville, S.C., from Waycross, Ga., by a soldier who signed his letters alternately as Gordon [Gordon O. Galbreath] and Bill [G.B. Galbreath] relating an account of having met Greenville, S.C., native Lee Howard at a USO dance and expressing his love for her. Letter dated 17 Aug. 1944 identified the writer as a graduate of a Houston, Texas, high school and former student of engineering at Texas A & M. Also includes candid photographs of World War II soldier Benjamin Gaston Cole, one of which features 48 images one sheet (29 x 22 cm); and letter, 16 June 200[4], from Lee Watson to Allen Stokes, South Caroliniana Library, transmitting the items and giving details of the occasion on which she met Galbreath at a dance for soldiers, "he had returned from service abroad ..." and the significance of the photographs of B.G. Cole.

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University of South Carolina, System Library Service, University Libraries

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University of South Carolina, System Library Service, University Libraries

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Cole, Benjamin Gaston

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Native of Candler, N.C.; lieutenant, later captain, U.S. Air Forces; stationed first at Greenville Air Field (S.C.), 2 Mar. 1943, with 78th Service Group (Greenville Service Group Training Center); Cole was transferred, 17 Mar. 1943, with the 381st Service Squadron to Walterboro Army Air Field (Colleton County, S.C.), and then to Robins Field, Warner-Robins, Ga.; en route to England, he was stationed briefly at Camp Kilmer, N.J., preparatory to sailing on 8 July 1943 aboard the Aquatania. ...

Galbreath, Gordon B.

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Watson, Lee Howard.

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