Observed arrival · 2026-11-11
The letters John H. Lauten sent home from WWII
A family archive of wartime letters, scans, photographs and documents from John H. Lauten, a 1st Infantry Division intelligence officer.
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- The homepage lists 87 letters; its England-and-D-Day section is explicitly marked “Coming soon.”
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The visible chronology spans 36 letters from 1942, 45 from early 1943, and five from Sicily in July–August 1943. A biographical timeline traces Lauten from UCLA and Boalt Hall to his discharge as a lieutenant colonel in 1945. The photos-and-documents section points to family-held photographs, newspaper stories, and wartime papers.
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