Helen was Doyle's fiancee before he was drafted. I know they had planned to be married after he returned. They had kept up correspondences during Doyle's deployment, and it must have been a frequent flow of letters. The series of letters below are what Helen sent to W. I. and Sadie, beginning with just before his death was known and the weeks that followed. We don't have the replies that W. I. sent to her. Reading these letters, you are given a slice of wartime life.

Doyle' college friends. Helen is seated to his left. We don't have identies of the other young women.