Letters from Betty Jones in Cordele, Georgia, to Lieutenant Byron C. Yarbrough.
During World War II, Byron Yarbrough (a native of Auburn, Alabama) served in the U.S. Navy and was stationed in the Pacific on Landing Craft Infantry ship LCI-449. He began writing to Betty Jones, a resident of Cordele, Georgia, in November of 1944. The two had not met before, but over the next four...
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Alabama Department of Archives and History
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| Summary: | During World War II, Byron Yarbrough (a native of Auburn, Alabama) served in the U.S. Navy and was stationed in the Pacific on Landing Craft Infantry ship LCI-449. He began writing to Betty Jones, a resident of Cordele, Georgia, in November of 1944. The two had not met before, but over the next four months they developed a romantic relationship through their correspondence. Byron was killed during an attack near Iwo Jima on February 17, 1945, but Betty did not learn of his death for almost a month; she continued to write letters daily until March 10. (Transcripts of the letters are included.) |
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