Thousands of letters from southern Indiana military members who served during World War II are now online as part of the Indiana Memory project.

The Charlestown-Clark County Public Library houses the collection of 1,600 letters and other correspondence with Jesse Dorsey, who ran a cement company newsletter during the war and wrote to about 350 servicemen and women from the Sellersburg and Speed areas of Clark County.

The library used a grant and help from Indiana University to scan the letters and cards from the Dorsey collection into a digital format. It took two years to digitize the collect, said library director Tamsie Meurer, but the letters can now be read online at www.in.gov/memories.

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