Letters from War – Responding to letters from home and commenting on Pine Grove high school basketball – February 1945

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Irvin Schwartz comments on the mail he's received from home in Pennsylvania and how letters that have nothing to do with the war were his favorites.

Letters from War – The first letter from the battlefields of Normandy, June 1944

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Pfc. Schwartz writes from Normandy in the weeks after the D-Day landings about what he'd read in his hometown newspaper in Pennsylvania.

Letters from War – A high school sports pundit from a US Army base in England, January 1944

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In a letter written on January 30, 1944, Pfc. Irvin Schwartz opined on high school basketball in his native Schuylkill County.