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Helen Ervin Postcard Regarding Transport of Walter Ervin to a Prisoner of War Camp

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Title	Helen Ervin Postcard Regarding Transport of Walter Ervin to a Prisoner of War Camp
Subject	Military Ohio Ohio Women World War II Soldiers Prisoners of war
Place	Athens (Ohio) Athens County (Ohio) Washington (District of Columbia) Germany
Description	This postcard (written in French and German) was sent to Helen Ervin, wife of World War II prisoner of war Walter Ervin, on February 1, 1945, to inform her that her husband was to be transported to a prisoner of war camp. The postcard measures 5.75" x 4" (14.61 x 10.16 cm). Walter R. Ervin (1914-2003) was born in Greenbrier County, West Virginia and moved to Athens County, Ohio when he was a child. After graduating from Athens High School in 1933, he began working for the Athens Ice and Storage Company until he reported for Army duty on December 8, 1941, the day after the U. S. was attacked at Pearl Harbor. His first duty station was with Western Defense Command in Gilroy, California, where he trained as an infantry scout. In June 1943 Ervin married Helen Sheridan, a 1939 graduate of Ohio University and secretary for football coach Don Peden. The following March, he shipped first to North Africa and then to Naples, Italy. He took part in the invasion of southern France in August 1944, and his division became part of the left flank of the 3rd Army group of Lieutenant General George Patton. Ervin was captured near Colmar, France on January 23, 1945 and spent the next five months as a German prisoner of war at Stalag VII. He was freed on May 11, 1945 and discharged from the Army as a corporal on October 18, 1945. Upon his return to Athens, Ohio he again went to work for the Athens Ice and Storage Company and in 1955 bought the Athens Culligan Company. He later moved to Millfield, Ohio.
Date of Original	February 01, 1945
Collection	Walter Ervin Collection
Source	Unpublished material (archives/manuscripts) MSS 144
Submitting Institution	Ohio University, Mahn Center for Archives & Special Collections
Type	Text
Format	manuscripts

Title	Om2596_2934229_018
Rights	For rights and reproduction requests, go to the Ohio Historical Society's Audiovisual and Graphic Reproduction Services page at http://www.ohiohistory.org/resource/audiovis/photodup.html; Online access is provided for research purposes only. For rights and reproduction requests or more information, go to http://www.ohiohistory.org/images/information
File Name	Om2596_2934229_018.tif
Image Height	1595
Image Width	2355
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