Letter re: Amon Carter, Jr.
- Title
- Letter re: Amon Carter, Jr.
- Creator
- Stipp, George M.
- Institution
- TCU
- Link
- https://repository.tcu.edu/handle/116099117/39635
- Description
- In Northern Africa April 15, 1943 Mr Amon G. Carter Sr. Ft Worth Star-Telegram Ft Worth, Texas Dear Mr. Carter, It has been two months and one day since we last saw Amon yet we could not write as you will know until after you had been officially notified. The Mrs wrote that you had sent her a telegram informing her that Amon was missing and we know that you have been notified. While on that subject of information of all kinds and the kindest regard for my homefolks I thank you from the bottom of my heart. I hope someway to repay you somehow for it all. We have been very fortunate in returning to the location where Amon disappeared. We are only three miles from the hill or mountain he was on. He moved practically everything onto this mountain with his battery in position right below. The early morning attack almost over ran the batter in its position, the largest portion moving just in the nick of time. Pirnie was trapped and joined the infantry on the mountain where Amon had been and came out with the infantry next day. He found Amon's observation post deserted when he looked for him. I don't mean Amon quit, he did not! Apparently he came down the back side of the mountain in an effort to rejoin the battery as it pulled out. It was much safer to have stayed on the mountain which Amon certainly knew yet he tried to get to his men. The back side of the mountains soon had 70 enemy tanks and some enemy infantry at the base of it and I sincerely believe Amon ran into this group and was captured. We all hope so! The reasoning behind such a statement is that by searching the whole area we have been unable to find any trace of Amon nor the men who were with him. One of those very unfortunate circumstances -2- wherein a few men run into a group of tanks and there is nothing you can do. I, too, with my men were in that same predicament, but I was more fortunate than Amon because there was no infantry to take me away. The tanks went on by us after "shooting up" everything we had and left us for the infantry to pick up, but we left before it arrived. Our group walked 17 miles back to our unit, but I have a feeling Amon had to walk with the Germans. I am not trying to build up your hopes and have no other proof except my own convictions of Amon's whereabouts or fate. I had hoped, as all of us had, that Amon would show up out of the hills for a long time (Some came in two and three weeks after that eventfull Valentine Day) but it has been too long now. Hopeing, wishing and praying that you have word from him before recieving this letter, I remain willing to help (and will continue searching) in any and every way i can. Sincerely George M. Stipp
- Date
- 1943-04-15
- Decade
- 1940s
- Subjects
- Carter, Amon G., Jr.
- Prisoners of war
- World War II
- Source
- Box 141, POW - Capture (April 12-16) 8 of 11 folder, Item 138
- Type
- Document
- Formats
- 8x13 paper
- Rights
- Prior written permission from TCU Special Collections required to use any document or photograph