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Description McAuliffeBastogneChristmasLetter101Airborne.jpg	English: Scanned in image of copy of the letter sent to soldiers of the 101st Airborne Division during the Battle of Bastogne. The original letter imaged here is from the memorabilia of Private William (Bill) Wheeler, 506th PIR, 101st Airborne Division who participated in the action. He trained at Toccoa and was originally with Headquarters Company. Private Wheeler volunteered for pathfinder school, participated in the D-Day drop as a pathfinder during which his transport airplane made a controlled ditching in the English Channel after being hit by anti-aircraft fire, and ended up in Easy Company as a replacement. He participated in the Holland Jump (A Bridge Too Far), the defense of Bastogne , and other actions completing his tour with Easy Company in Austria at war's end.
Date	24 December 1944
Source	Transferred from en.wikipedia to Commons.; 11 February 2007 (original upload date), by Richardelainechambers at English Wikipedia
Author	Anthony McAuliffe (1898–1975) Alternative names Anthony Clement McAuliffe; Anthony Clement "Nuts" McAuliffe; Anthony C. McAuliffe; Nuts! Description American soldier Date of birth/death 2 July 1898 11 August 1975 Location of birth/death Washington, D.C. Washington, D.C. Authority file : Q573609 VIAF : 33112555 ISNI : 0000000033177452 LCCN : n99284530 NAID : 10596373 GND : 130813540 WorldCat creator QS:P170,Q573609
Permission ( Reusing this file )	English: The letter from which this image was created is a text created by a U.S. Army commander as part of his duties during World War II and should be in the public domain as an official U.S. Government document. The image is a scan of the original document and is placed in the public domain by the person who did the scan, Richard Chambers.

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