Helen’s letter has been recorded here to allow her impressions to be shared with any who are not able to see the pages comfortably and all who are inexperienced in reading cursive, such as ESL individuals and the young. It’s also nice for those who enjoy listening to her thoughts on that day in 1945, a day that altered the course of history.
Lt. Helen Gertrude Staebler Martin's Letter Home
If you would like, you can read along with the narrator. The letter’s three pages appear below, after Helen’s picture.
Audio rendition of a letter to home written by Helen, an American Nurse, at the end of World War II.
Letter from Lt. Helen G. S. Martin, USA, to her parents – France, 1945 May 7
Images courtesy of the Center for American War Letters Archives, Leatherby Libraries at Chapman University