Heartbreaking WW2 Era Letter Written by Mother To Her Son Who She Didn’t Know Was Killed Weeks Prior in Belgium. Details in comments.

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  1. This letter was written by a mother named Dora Cupp. She was born on August 29th 1883 in Alabama. She had a son named Lloyd Cupp who was serving overseas with the 3rd Armored Division. She kept up regular correspondence with her son but hadn’t heard from him for a month. She wrote this letter to her son on September 21st 1944. But unknown to her, her son Lloyd had been killed in action on September 5th 1944, just 16 days prior. She hadn’t yet been notified of his death.

    The letter reads:

    “ Huckabay, Tex
    Sept. 21, 1944

    Darling Son:

    It was one month ago son, that you wrote your last letter that we’ve received from you. Maybe others are on the way but I doubt if you’ve had a chance to write anyone. But all our thoughts are there with you wherever you are. Somehow my faith still holds out, that you’ll come through it all and be with us some day and it sure can’t be too soon to suit your mom and the rest of us here at home.

    We’re alright. Mrs. Ginace is able to be up most of the time and the babies are fine also. Just received a letter from Ruth. She’s getting on just fine but working hard. Lloyd, the old Flynn’s house is being torn down. So is the Abe Hicks house and the Tom Smiths garage will be wrecked soon.

    So some of the old houses are coming down it seems. But they’ll be rebuilt elsewhere. That’s the way life is. It comes and goes. We have one life to live. The great hereafter comes my darling, and I want you to be ready to meet it when it comes as it will come to both you and me some day. Your mom will be waiting for you over there should I go first, as it’s natural I should.

    I know you’ve gone through all the torments any one could go through. It’s been plenty hard and then some. More than most of us will ever know. But it’s something we can’t help. Neither you nor I, or the many other boys over there fighting for the liberty of the world.

    May God Bless you Son,
    Always.

    From Mother and all. “

    The letter would be returned to Dora stamped with “Deceased”. Her son had been killed fighting the Germans in Belgium. His body would be returned to the U.S. and is buried in the Huckabay Cemetery in Texas. Lloyd was 26 years old. His mother, Dora, would pass away in 1964 aged 81.

  2. So it seems the 3rd armoured division fought and liberated various walloon cities like charleroi, namur mons and many others. On 5th september they and the belgian resistance cut off 40 000 soldiers from army task force straube, killing 3500 and capturing 25 000 prisoners. Cupp was killed in action.

    On 10 september, they fired the (claimed) first american shell hitting german soil (probaly from an m1 155mm Long tom) 2 days later they went into germany into the absolute carnage of the hürtgen forrest of the siegfriend line.

    Its infantry soldiers like him that freed our country

    Cupp Lloyd M Pvt 32nd Armor 9/5/1944 38043899 Infantry

    Edit= to further give you insight in how much it sucked to be an infantry soldier. The US infantry suffered 140 000 deaths, or 18.5%. And that is the lowest of all armed forces of ww2. Meanwhile the US tank crews only suffered 3% deaths. (Oh yes you rather be in a sherman than in a tiger tank).

    Source= [at 37:25 timestamp. by the chieftain](https://youtu.be/bNjp_4jY8pY?si=sqoSdb750uDAwuCY)

  4. Born on September 30, 1917 – he was born during one World War and was killed in the next.

  5. Sounds like she knew it. Thanks for this hero to save us!

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