National Postal Museum
Letter from Jack Fogarty to Mary MacDonald
November 9, 1945
Sergeant Jack Fogarty expresses his frustration with waiting to return home from service in this two-page letter to his pen pal Mary MacDonald. The letter written on November 9, 1945 from Tsuchuria, Japan was enclosed in an illustrated envelope (Museum ID 2012.2006.31.1) with a self-portrait that showed Fogarty impatient with the point system for demobilization.
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