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NOTE ON EDITORIAL PRACTICES T W W II correspondence of Lawrence Cane to Grace Singer Cane totals just over 300 letters. In addition, five letters that Cane wrote to other family members are known to exist. All of these original letters are in the possession of Lawrence Cane’s son, David Cane. The 186 letters that appear in this volume are transcribed as they were written. Letters that were not included in this volume were omitted because they contained details that distracted from the main story or were repetitive of previous material . Similarly, selected portions of some letters were also deleted . The latter deletions are indicated in the text by ellipses. Very rarely, obvious spelling errors have been corrected. No additional modification of spelling or grammar was made. Remarkably , all of these letters represent first drafts and essentially none of the original letters contain words that were crossed out. Only one letter, Cane’s V-Mail of June 10, 1944, sent immediately after the D-Day landings, bears any marks of the Army censor. Official Army documents are reproduced verbatim in the Appendixes. We have provided explanatory footnotes to identify key persons, places, and events. ...

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