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The War Letters of Ramon Patheal: 1943 - 1945

Co-pilot of B24. Assigned to the 15th Air Force in Italy. He was shot down over Austria in April of 1945.

A couple of notes: the text of the letters has been lightly edited for clarification. Researchers may acquire unedited versions if they so desire.
Letter count = 184 of approximately 180. Last update was on 9/4/2006.

A note about searches. To update the word database requires "reindexing" the directory. We don't do this every time we upload new letters. If you do a search today you are only searching the letters previously indexed - perhaps a week ago. Last Index date was 9/4/2006. According to the spider logs, the search index contains 190 documents. A total number of 92297 words were found and indexed. 230742 word-endings were created.

Letters from Sheppard Field, TX

February 18, 1943
February 21, 1943
February 24, 1943
February 25, 1943
February 26, 1943
February 28, 1943
March 1, 1943
March 2, 1943
March 3, 1943
March 4, 1943
March 5, 1943
March 6, 1943
March 11, 1943
March 12, 1943
March 13, 1943
March 14, 1943
March 15, 1943
March 17, 1943
March 18, 1943
March 19, 1943
March 21, 1943

Letters from Southwest State Teacher College, TX

March 24, 1943
March 25, 1943
March 26, 1943
March 27, 1943
March 28, 1943
March 29, 1943
March 30, 1943
March 31, 1943

Letters from W. Texas A&M, Canyon, TX

April 1, 1943
April 4, 1943
April 6, 1943
April 7, 1943
April 8, 1943
April 9, 1943
April 11, 1943
April 12, 1943
April 13, 1943
April 15, 1943
April 18, 1943
April 19, 1943
April 20, 1943
April 21, 1943
April 23, 1943
April 27, 1943
April 30, 1943
May 4, 1943
May 5-6, 1943
May 7, 1943
May 9, 1943
May 11, 1943
May 17 (AM), 1943
May 17 (PM), 1943
May 19, 1943

Letters from Santa Ana Army Air Base, California

May 23, 1943
May 24, 1943
May 26, 1943
May 29, 1943
May 31, 1943
June 3, 1943
June 6, 1943
June 9, 1943
June 10, 1943
June 13, 1943
June 21, 1943
June 25, 1943
July 1, 1943
July 10, 1943
July 18, 1943
July 22, 1943
July 25, 1943
August 4, 1943
August 8, 1943
August 15, 1943
August 23, 1943

Yes, you can enlarge this....

Notes on the 825th Squadron

Soldier's Handbook with Glossary

Letters from the Ryan School of Aeronautics at Hemet, California

September 3, 1943
September 5, 1943
September 12, 1943
September 15, 1943
September 19, 1943
September 26, 1943
September 28, 1943
September 30, 1943
October 3, 1943
October 5, 1943
October 10, 1943
October 20, 1943
October 26, 1943

Letters from Gardner Army Airfield, Taft, California

November 4, 1943
November 7, 1943
November 14, 1943
November 20, 1943
November 24, 1943
November 29, 1943
December 5, 1943
December 12, 1943
December 19, 1943
December 25, 1943
December 27, 1943
December 30, 1943

Letters from California - Stockton

January 5, 1944
January 7, 1944
January 9, 1944
January 10, 1944
January 19, 1944
January 29, 1944
February 2, 1944
February 9, 1944

Letters from Yuma, Arizona

February 18, 1944
February 20, 1944
March 2, 1944

Letters from California - Stockton

March 9, 1944
March 25, 1944
March 31, 1944

Letters from Lincoln Nebraska

April 2, 1944
April 3, 1944
April 9, 1944
April 17, 1944
April 21, 1944

Letters from Biggs Field, El Paso, Texas

May 7, 1944
May 24, 1944
May 28, 1944
June 2, 1944
June 4, 1944
June 11, 1944
June 17, 1944
June 22, 1944
June 24, 1944
June 27, 1944
June 30, 1944
July 9, 1944
July 17, 1944

new base

August 1, 1944
August 8, 1944
August 9, 1944
August 11, 1944
August 15, 1944
August 16, 1944
August 17, 1944
August 19, 1944
August 19b, 1944
August 23, 1944
August 25, 1944
August 26, 1944

Letters from Torretta Field, Italy

September 2, 1944
September 6, 1944
September 10, 1944
September 11, 1944
September 14, 1944
September 19, 1944
September 23, 1944
October 2, 1944
October 7, 1944 (AM)
October 7, 1944 (PM)
October 14, 1944
October 22, 1944
October 23, 1944
October 28, 1944
November 3, 1944
November 6, 1944
November 8 (AM), 1944
November 8 (PM), 1944
November 12, 1944
November 22, 1944
November 23, 1944
November 26, 1944
December 2, 1944
December 14, 1944
December 22, 1944
December 26, 1944
December 30, 1944
January 11, 1945
January 22, 1945
January 27, 1945
February 2, 1945
February 11, 1945
February 15, 1945
February 23, 1945
March 2, 1945
March 12, 1945
March 17, 1945
April 7, 1945
April 19, 1945

(c) 2006 Patheal Family Estate This document is being made available for research and perusal purposes only. No part of this document may be reproduced in any form without the written permission of the Patheal Family Estate. For more information contact Robert E. Rowland at bob@rerowland.com