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Original image part of the Fort Worth Star-Telegram Collection, University of Texas at Arlington Libraries. Identifier: AR406-6-1836
Identifier: 20061660
Title: Lost Battalion
Description: This homemade envelope was fashioned from a sheet of ruled tablet paper and enclosed a letter from Captain Thomas A. Dodson, member of Texas' Lost Battalion. Mrs. Dodson received the letter almost a year after it was mailed. It was the first known letter from a member of the 131st Field Artillery, 36th Division, since the outfit fell before the Japanese on Java, in March of 1941. The envelope is addressed to Mrs. Thomas A. Dodson, of 751 Ninth Avenue, Fort Worth, Texas. Written at the bottom left of the envelope is, "Prisoners Information Bureau / Department of War / Tokyo."
Date Created: 1944-08-19
Coverage: 1940s
Category: Military
Subject Term: Dodson, Thomas A. (Capt.), Dodson, Thomas A. (Mrs.), Lost Battalion, Lost Battalion Survivors, Texas Battalion, Correspondence, Prisoners of war, Prisoners Information Bureau, United States. Army
Collection: Fort Worth Star-Telegram Collection
Type: Still Image
Format: JPG
Publisher: University of Texas at Arlington Libraries
Rights Holder: University of Texas at Arlington Libraries, Special Collections
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Project Series: Through the Lens of the Fort Worth Star-Telegram: A Photographic View of World War II in Fort Worth

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