Former Giants co-owner Wellington Mara, right, while serving in the U.S. Navy. Credit: Courtesy of the Mara familyCourtesy of the Mara family
The carton was in a back corner of an attic in Westchester County, buried beneath dresses and other boxes.
It was marked “Wellington Mara Navy Memories,” and inside was a shoebox full of letters written to the parents of a 28-year-old Navy lieutenant and radar officer aboard the aircraft carrier USS Randolph in the Pacific Ocean in 1945.
And there was another folder beside it, one full of more detailed – and frank – letters to his older brother, Jack, about day-to-day life and fears as a bombing attack of Tokyo neared that February.