Box 4253.005

Scope and Contents This collection consists of one letter written by Captain Walter H. Kurtz who served in the 186th Engineer Combat Battalion in the Philippine Islands in 1945. The letter was written on February 4, 1945 to Kurtz's uncle, Will C. Hensyl of Berwick, Pennsylvania. In the letter Kurtz describes the people of the Philippine Islands and the weather conditions. He also asks his uncle how the grouse hunting had been during the previous fall.