This is a website devoted to the collected wartime letters of W.D. Johnson, Jr., who was killed in action on April 17, 1945 in a battle for the small alpine hamlet of Shierke amid the Hartz Mountains of central Germany. This odyssey of one man’s war, revealed through a handful of letters to his loved ones and spanning less than one year, is a short but poignant testament to the different faces, and phases, of a man ~ son, brother, husband, father, and soldier.
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Thank you David. Your memory lives on.