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Jean Hoyer Ludwick, reading one of the hundreds of letters sent to her by her husband, medical officer Lt. Col./Maj. Arthur L. Ludwick, Jr. M.D., from the frontlines of WWII. After being married only two months, Jean and Lud were separated for over 28 months.
Sample letters from the frontlines of WWII.
Lud served as censor for his regiments, censoring all letters sent through the mail from overseas to the U.S. The Army implemented a very strict censorship policy that prevented letters from containing any sensitive information re: location, specific details of battles, numbers of casualties, etc.
It was very cold in Northern Ireland, Italy, and even in the Atlas Mountains of North Africa.
The 34th Infantry Division's "Red Bull" shoulder patch and 133rd/168th regiments' insignias.
The caduceus, an ancient medical symbol worn by U.S. Army Medical Officers.
Lud's rucksack and battlefield equipment.
Musette bag (rucksack) and contents.
Lud's field surgical instruments.
An example of an Emergency Medical Tag (EMT), attached to the body of a soldier killed in action on the battlefield. "Clearing/collecting" teams would remove the deceased.
The top level of Lud's Army foot locker.
The mail truck was always one of the most anticipated vehicles by soldiers serving overseas.
Lud's words: “This is an etching by the artist, Baron Rudolph von Ripper. He was Austrian by birth, and was an artist embedded in our unit. He was also a fearless and skilled member of the Army’s Reconnaissance Patrol and earned two Silver Stars going behind enemy lines. As part of the Austrian nobility, von Ripper hated the Nazis, as they had confiscated all of his family’s holdings and killed several family members. After the war, I often wondered about him. This art piece is overly stylized, but it shows a couple of litter bearers carrying a wounded man, and also the dazed “walking wounded.”
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