77-year old love letters discovered in an attic crawl space

Boston’s News 7 reported that in the midst of a Rhode Island home renovation project, two workers found a purse filled with love letters in an attic crawl space.

The letters were written by Army-Air Force Pilot Lt. John Jack Bowen in the mid-1940s, during WWII, to his fiancee, Nancy Allen. In one letter, Bowen tenderly writes, “‘I can’t wait to come home and marry you.”

Sadly, Jack did not make it home alive. Nancy never married and never stopped wearing her engagement ring until the day she died.

Nancy treasured her love letters. What a treasure for us discover them 77 years later. 

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