Dear BillieDear Billie

Based on the full text of ninety-two letters written more than seventy-five years ago and only discovered in 2019, Dear Billie: A World War II Love Story tells the true story of a long-distance romance that began during the war and lasted a lifetime. Written by Roland "Vern" Ploughman, from Bay Roberts, Newfoundland, to his girl, Lillian "Billie" Wenman, from Toronto, Ontario, these letters follow a tank gunner's experience of training, combat, wounding, and return home. Spanning from January 1943 to August 1945, they begin with eighteen-year-old Vern writing to seventeen-year-old Billie, who a friend insists he must meet.