Book excerpt: Description: This series (2 folders) consists of letters and V-mails to Sergeant Calvin Benedict, from his parents, Barton and Zide Benedict, New Orleans, Louisiana. All of the letters were returned as Sgt. Benedict was missing in action. At the end of the series are the V-mail envelopes that have since been disassociated from the V-mails that were inside them.;Personal correspondence, military correspondence, photographs, and souvenirs from the service of Sergeant Calvin Benedict, who served with the 508th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 82nd Airborne Division and was a German prisoner of war from June 1944 to January 1945. The collection is arranged into four series: I. Military and government documents, 1943-1951; II. Personal correspondence, May 1944-September 1944; III. Prisoner of war correspondence, August 1944-March 1945; and IV. Souvenirs and personal items, 1943-1945.