Letters Home: A World War II Archive
Presented in partnership with Focus Features’ PRESSURE in theaters May 29th
As America turns 250, some stories deserve to be heard for the first time. PRESSURE tells the story of the decision that defined D-Day. These letters tell what it felt like to live through it.
Words from the front lines.
PRESSURE star Andrew Scott reads from a soldier’s D-Day letter, written from the front lines in June 1944.
Read letters from those who lived it.
Written by Louis “Speedy” Weber between 1942 and 1945, they trace one soldier’s journey from a stateside training camp to the front lines of Europe — candid, funny, and achingly human. Words meant for one person. Now, finally, for all of us.
The USO has safeguarded letters like these for decades, entrusted to us by service members and their families. This is the first time we’re opening the archive. And this is only the beginning.
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72 hours. One impossible decision. The fate of the free world.
In the tense days before D-Day, General Dwight D. Eisenhower and Captain James Stagg must choose: launch the largest seaborne invasion in history — or stand down and risk losing everything. Starring Andrew Scott, Brendan Fraser, Kerry Condon, Chris Messina, and Damian Lewis. Only In Theaters May 29.
Speedy wrote to remind someone he was thinking of them. You can do the same. Send a message of support to the service members carrying that same spirit today.
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