This collection contains correspondence from PFC Maurice Edwin Becker, USA to his mother and father during the Second World War.

According to the supplementary biography, Private First Class Maurice Edwin Becker, United States Army went to the Army Specialized Training Corps at Princeton University. He served in the European Theater in Company L, 413th Regiment, 104th Infantry Division and received the Sharp Shooter medal and a Purple Heart for being wounded near Aachen, Germany. He spent over a year undergoing operations and rehab and then returned to Cornell in February 1945 a day after his medical discharge.

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