A little more from Andy about his dad, Sergeant Henry Espinosa. His Dad's "War chest" is picture below and a photo after liberation.
He writes ..
Here’s an excerpt from a letter about his baseball playing to my grandmother, the letters all written in Spanish had to be translated.
Aug 6th, 1945 Brussel Belgium …
Mom, right now I’m in the capital Brussels and I’ve been here for 2 days. We came to play ball. Possibly today at 2pm I will leave to go to Charleroi. All of our games went very well - we didn’t lose a single game - we played 7 games and won them all. The colonel brought us a pallet of beer as thanks for having won all of the games"
744th abdill history by Nancy on Scribd
https://www.angelfire.com/va2/worldwar2family/744.html
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