This collection contains 313 letters sent from George Schneider to his future wife, Virginia Webb; as well as few other letters, notes, and clippings. A majority of the letters were sent during Schneider's time in the United States Army as a Corporal. The letters begin in 1944, when Schneider was at Camp Campbell in Kentucky, and continue through his travels across the Atlantic and into France, Germany, and Austria in 1945; his return to the United States and time while at Camp Cooke in California; as well as a few letters sent to Webb in the 1950s-1960s. The majority of the letters which were sent almost every day throughout most of 1945, document Schneider's Army and World War Two experiences.

Born in 1920 to George W. and Flora B. Schneider, George W. Schneider III enlisted in the Army in 1943 in Cincinnati, Ohio. He was part of the 413 Armored Field Artillery Battalion, Battery A. After returning from war, he married Virginia Webb and became a traveling salesman. In 1965, he ran for trustee of the Cincinnati Club.

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