Accession Number RARE.2014.0004: Nena L. Couch, unknown
[identification of item], Jack Kuhn Correspondence Sent While Serving in the United States Army During World War II, SPEC.RARE.0287, Rare Books and Manuscripts Library, Ohio State University
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Processed by: Beth Crowner, 2019 June; Finding aid written by: Beth Crowner, 2019 June; Audrey Wimbiscus, 2019 September
John "Jack" L. Kuhn, Jr. was enlisted in the United States Army during World War II; he was initially stationed at Fort Sill in Lawton, Oklahoma for training in 1944. In February 1945, Jack was deployed to France, where he was stationed for the remainder of the war.
World War II took place from 1939 to 1945; it involved over 30 countries and caused 40 to 50 million deaths. The two sides were the Axis powers, which included Germany, Italy, and Japan, and the Allied powers, which included France, Great Britain, the United States, the Soviet Union, and China. The United States officially entered the war on the side of the Allies after the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor in 1941, sending troops to both the European and Pacific theatres of war.
The Jack Kuhn Correspondence Sent While Serving in the United States Army During World War II dates from circa October 1944 to circa December 1945, and consists of correspondence written by Kuhn to famly members while he was enlisted in the United States Army during World War II. Kuhn addressed the majority of the letters to his father, John L. Kuhn, Sr., and his stepmother, Ellen Claire (Couch) Kuhn. In this correspondence, Kuhn discusses where he lived in France while he was deployed, family news, his surprise marriage to his wife, Flossie, and general army life. The collection also includes several V-Mail (Victory Mail) letters, both in their miniature and original size forms.
Jack Kuhn Correspondence Sent While Serving in the United States Army in France During World War II etc.