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title	:	A Chance for Love : The World War II Letters of Marian Elizabeth Smith and Lt. Eugene T. Petersen, USMCR
author	:	Smith, Marian Elizabeth.; Petersen, Eugene T.
publisher	:	Michigan State University Press
isbn10 | asin	:	0870134906
print isbn13	:	9780870134906
ebook isbn13	:	9780585188089
language	:	English
subject	Smith, Marian Elizabeth,--1921- --Correspondence, Petersen, Eugene T.--Correspondence, World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, American, Women--United States--Biography, United States.--Marine Corps--Biography, Soldiers--United States--Biography.
publication date	:	1998
lcc	:	D811.5.S5867 1999eb
ddc	:	940.53/092/2
subject	:	Smith, Marian Elizabeth,--1921- --Correspondence, Petersen, Eugene T.--Correspondence, World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, American, Women--United States--Biography, United States.--Marine Corps--Biography, Soldiers--United States--Biography.

Page i A Chance for Love

Page ii Gene and Marian shortly after his return in 1945.

Page iii A Chance for Love The World War II Letters of Marian Elizabeth Smith and Lt. Eugene T. Petersen, USMCR Edited by Eugene T. Petersen Michigan State University Press East Lansing

Page iv Copyright 1998 Eugene T. Petersen The paper used in this publication meets the minimum requirements of ANSI/NISO Z39.48.1992 (R 1997) (Permanence of Paper). Michigan State University Press East Lansing, Michigan 48823-5202 06 05 04 03 02 01 00 99 98 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publications Data Smith, Marian Elizabeth, 1921 A chance for love: the World War II letters of Marian Elizabeth Smith and Lt. Eugene T. Petersen, USMCR / edited by Eugene T. Petersen. p. cm. ISBN 0-87013-490-6 (alk. Paper)/ cloth ISBN 0-87013-524-4 (alk. Paper)/ paperback 1. Smith, Marian Elizabeth, 1921- correspondence. 2. Petersen, Eugene T. correspondence. 3. World War, 19391945 Personal narratives, Amer ican. 4. Women United States Biography. 5. United States. 6. Marine Corps . 7. Soldiers United States Biography. I. Petersen, Eugene T. II. Title. D811.5.S5867 1999 98-050191 940.53/092/2 21 CIP Cover design by Michael Smith of View Two Plus Book design by Nicolette Rose Visit Michigan State University Press on the World-Wide Web at: http://www.msu.edu/unit/msupress

Page v Contents Foreword vii Preface ix Introduction xiii 1 "... a wonderful chance for a love..." 1 2 "I hope you're all right, dear..." 51 3 "Obviously I 'care' about you,..." 87 4 "... security is worthless & temporary if... at the expense of others." 147 5 "... what I think about you now is quite different than what I thought... last summer...." 207 6 "How soon can you come home?" 257 7 "I really believe... the things you have to do now are as important, in a way more important, than the battles." 335 8 "I am anxious to get awayand doubly anxious to be with you." 405 Epilogue 449 Index 455

Page vii Foreword It is a pleasure to have the opportunity to introduce Gene Petersen's World War II letters to and from his friend, Marian Smith. The correspondence evokes a time, an outlook, and circumstances long gone and widely forgotten. This book is a love story, a war story, as well as a diary of hardships and pleasures large and small. Falling in love by letter is, perhaps, more intimate in some ways than the same process in person. Like Gene, I shared this experience in letters mailed from the European front to my future wife, Helen Wallbank. And like Gene and Marian, we endured the delayed reaction to questions and observations as letters crossed the thousands of miles from the front and home. At a distance of fifty years, their letters highlight how utterly different was daily life in the 1940s from today, and at the same time, how ageless is human emotion. The gradual deepening of Gene and Marian's developing relationship permeates the two-year collection of letters sent between the Pacific theater and Chicago. Marian's accounts of her daily routine remind us of an earlier Americaa time when meat was scarce and a pork chop made an extravagant gift; when film was unloaded in a closet and prints required a ten-day wait; when young women in downtown Chicago walked home from the movies freely at any hour of the night. The contrast between home front and Pacific theater is especially sharp. Gene's letters vividly convey the alternating boredom and tension of waiting for events to develop, and the confusion and fear of combat. Gene was among the Marines who took Iwo Jima in a three-week battle of immense proportions. Indulging an interest in history that would become his life work, Gene somehow found occasional moments to record his impressions.

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