V-mail from PFC Bernard Fox, France, to Miss Lois Ida Fox, Brooklyn, New York
Gift in Memory of Bernard Fox
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V-mail, processed. From Private First Class Bernard Fox, APO 772, France, to his daughter, Miss Lois Ida Fox, Brooklyn, New York. He writes about receiving mail from her and others; agrees that school breaks are never long enough; he is doing well. 25 January 1945
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01/25/1945
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Items from the service of Private First Class Bernard Fox, who served in the 46th Medical Depot Company in the European Theater of Operations. Bernard Fox was born in New York, New York, in 1904. After the stock market crash in 1929, Fox left his job on Wall Street to take over his family’s tailoring business after his father’s suicide. Around 1944, he enlisted in the Medical Corps in order to avoid combat, as he hated war. Fox was assigned to the 46th Medical Depot Company in Marseilles, France, and then Hospital Plant #4400 in Southern France in April 1945. The collection consists of a photograph of Fox, his dog tag, and V-mails he sent to his daughter, Lois, as well as her mother, Gussie, who he was separated from.