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Hello [D]arling
Well here I am again. This is the first time this week that I had time to write to you. You see I’ve been very busy this week. I’ve been out in the range teaching the rifle and telling the fellows how to fire it and I wouldn't get…

Dear Yvette
How is everything with you to-day [sic]? I am now in the guard house. I just came off past and nothing has happened so far, but I’ll have to go back in about a half hour. I still love you and I wish I could see you. I had a dream about…

Dear Yve:
I just got the box of cookies that you sent and there [sic] good and I got two letters from you to-day [sic] to [sic]. Well I haven’t done much to-day [sic] but at seven o’clock to night [sic]. They lined us all up and and we had to have…

Fort Devens, Massachusetts

May 4th 1942

Darling Yve;
How do you feel now that I not[sic] around any more. [A]re you staying home every night or going out[?]. Excuse the writing because I am laying down and writing on a book. This morning I was…

Fort Devens, Massachusetts

May 7, 1942

Darling Yve,
I am having normal time wish you were here. I wrote my mother and I told her I would call her up [S]aturday night if I would be able to see her [S]unday and I told her to bring you, I am…

Fort Knox, Kentucky
May 15, 1942
Darling Yve,
I only got one letter from you in 15 days in the army. [S]o I[‘d] like to hear from you again. [T]he letter you did send me I keep reading it over and over again. [Y]ou don’t know I good I feel when I…

Fort Knox, Kentucky

May 16, 1942

Darling Yve,
I just got your letter and I feel much better. Well to start off with I [sic] tell you what I did to-day [sic]. We got up at 5:45 and ate chow then they told us we were going out on a drill field…

Fort Knox, Kentucky
May 18, 1942

Darling Yve,
I am glad to hear from you. I got three letters from you to-day [sic]. Well to begin with we changed clothes to-day [sic] and put on our sun tan out fits [sic] they are pretty nice. I was going to…

Fort Knox, Kentucky
May 24, 1942
My Darling Yve,
I love you very much and I hope you feel the same. Your letters are coming to me faster than I though[t] they would. [S]ome days I’ve got two or three in fact I get them so fast I don’t know where…

Fort Knox, Kentucky
May 25, 1942

Dear Yve,
I just got your box of candy and it was swell. I couldn’t be better. It was so thoughtful of you to send if. I knew you wouldn’t forget me. Well here I am just got an injection and my arm is a little…