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Salvaged From 1941 Shipwreck, Letters Reveal Wartime Love and Sacrifice For over 70 years, the letters lay undisturbed in the wreckage of the S.S. Gairsoppa, sheltered from the ravages of ocean currents by well-positioned mail bags. Now, conservators are piecing together these undelivered messages from the past. A conservator examined paper items from the Gairsoppa. More than 700 letters were discovered aboard the sunken cargo ship some 70 years after it was torpedoed by a German U-boat.Credit.The Postal Museum Feb. 28, 2021 “Imagine that I have my lips tight against yours with my arms around you tight … hearts beating as one,” a serviceman stationed in India told his beloved, Iris, in 1941. ....
The fragments of a 1941 love letter to a woman named Iris, found nearly three miles under the ocean in a shipwreck, have been painstakingly pieced together by experts, 80 years after it was posted. “Look after yourself my darling, not only for your own sake …….. for mine also,” wrote the unknown serviceman stationed in the Waziristan region, now part of Pakistan. “Imagine that I have my lips tight against yours with my arms around you tight …. ....