As the Liberty ship Caleb Strong steamed from Newport News, Va., to Algeria in the spring of 1944, the G.I.s aboard did what soldiers going to war always do: they wrote a lot of letters home. Some of them never got there: to be exact, 235 letters to 117 addresses in 34 states from 93 servicemen. For reasons that may never be known, this batch of V-mail wound up in an attic in Raleigh, N.C., in the house of an aunt of a serviceman. Mixed in with some old socks in an Army duffel bag, they were discovered in June by...
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