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Carparzo's Letter was a letter written by Adrian Carparzo sometime during June 1944.

History

The letter was revealed shortly after Adrian was mortally wounded by a German sniper. He was trying to tell Private Stanley Mellish to take the letter and send it to his dad knowing he was going to die of blood loss. Once the sniper was dealt with by Private Daniel Jackson, medic Wade took the blood soaked letter to write another copy which was not blood stained.

However, during the mission, Wade was killed by a German soldier. Captain Miller then took the letter to eventually give to Carparzo's dad when the mission was over. Unfortunately Miller was also killed by the same soldier two days later meaning that Private Richard Reiben eventually took the letter to pass on.

Because of this it was soon a letter that was passed down from soldier to soldier.

Trivia

  • The real letter never reached its destination as that was covered in blood. The one that was eventually read by Adrian's dad was a copy of it made by Wade.
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