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Angelina Gonsalves received an unexpected, yet cherished, delivery from the US Postal Service last month -- a letter her late husband wrote to his mother while deployed overseas in 1945.

"To be able to see her read something he wrote and look back at that history, it's something she'll always have now."

The letter was written by Sergeant John Gonsalves, a 22-year-old Army soldier stationed in Germany. He was ...

ABC57 News in South Bend, Ind. covers all of Michiana including St. Joseph, Elkhart, Kosciusko, LaPorte and Marshall counties in Indiana and Berrien, Cass, Van Buren and St. Joseph counties in Mich.

American soldier John Gonsalves was serving in Germany in the aftermath of World War II when he wrote a letter to his mother in Massachusetts in 1945. Last month, the U.S. Postal Service finally delivered the letter to his family — 76 years late.

"To be able to see her read something he wrote and look back at that history, it's something she'll always have now."

Angelina Gonsalves received an unexpected, yet cherished, delivery from the US Postal Service last month -- a letter her late husband wrote to his mother while deployed overseas in 1945.

Angelina Gonsalves received an unexpected, yet cherished, delivery from the US Postal Service last month -- a letter her late husband wrote to his mother while deployed overseas in 1945.

"To be able to see her read something he wrote and look back at that history, it's something she'll always have now."

After nearly eight decades, a World War II soldiers letter was finally delivered.