Book excerpt: Description: This series consists of 10 letters and one V-mail from David Estes, to his parents, Picayune, Mississippi. Estes was stationed at Army Air Forces Basic Training Center, Miami Beach, Florida; Air Forces Technical School, Sioux Falls, South Dakota; Yuma, Arizona; and Lincoln, Nebraska.;Military correspondence, documents, and personal correspondence from the service of Technical Sergeant David Estes, who was a Very High Frequency Radio Operator in the 580th Bombardment Squadron, 390th Bombardment Group, 8th Air Force. The collection is arranged into two series: I. Military correspondence and documents, August 1943-April 1946 and II. Personal correspondence, August 1943-Novemeber 1944.