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- Tags: Military life
Letter to Yvette from Howard, June 1, 1942
Fort Knox, Kentucky
June 1, 1942
Darling Yve,
It shure [sic] am hot down here how is it up there[?] You know what darling! We got a swimming pool in the back of our barrack but it isn’t open yet its [sic] all filled with water and looks good. I…
Tags: Base, Dance, Film, Military life, Service club, Ships Ahoy
Letter to Yvette from Howard, June 14, 1942
Fort Knox, Kentucky
June 14, 1942
Darling Yve,
I love you. I just came from the movies and saw a nice picture the name of it was (They All Kiss the Bride) and it’s good. Well this afternoon we all went out and took some pictures of ourselfs…
Tags: Birthday, brownies, Film, Military life, They all kiss the Bride
Letter to Yvette from Howard, June 17, 1942
Fort Knox, Kentucky
June 17, 1942
Darling Yve,
I have been so darn busy I haven’t been able to write. I been on the go all the time. I’m sorry if you think that I don’t want to write but some times [sic] it impossible. In your letter you think I…
Tags: Blackout, Love, Military life, Passing out
Letter to Yvette from Howard, June 18, 1942
Fort Knox, Kentucky
June 18, 1942
Yve Darling
I have been pretty busy the last two or three days. I was out on the machine gun range and didn’t get back until the light went out [W]ednsday and [T]hursday. I had a detail until ten o’clock and to…
Tags: Machine Gun, Military life, money
Letter to Yvette from Howard, June 19, 1942
Fort Knox, Kentucky
June 19, 1942
Darling Yve
I got your picture to-day [sic] and they are pretty good, I like you in white. I am sorry that you got a cold and I hope it gets better quick. Well darling we are here practicing feild [sic] drills…
Tags: Military life, Radio
Letter to Yvette from Howard, June 21, 1942
Fort Knox, Kentucky
June 21, 1932
Darling Yve
I got your box of stuff. I don’t know how to spell what it is so I called it stuff. No hard feelings huh! I ate them all befroe I went to bed [S]aturday. Al Mortenson said they were the best he ever…
Tags: Military life, Military training, P.X., Sunburn
Letter to Yvette from Howard, June 24, 1942
Fort Knox, Kentucky
June 24, 1942
Darling Yve,
I am getting auful [sic] home sick. Every time I get a letter from you I feel more sick but I feel bad if I don’t get one. Well we got speaches [sic] every other day on the war from capatin captains…
Tags: Dance, Gold brick, homesick, Military life
Letter to Yvette from Howard, June 27, 1942
Fort Knox, Kentucky
June 27, 1942
Darling Yve
I been so busy lately I haven’t had time to write and to-morrow [sic] I got to work K.P. I just had it [F]riday and it was awful hot. Well i just got your brownies to-day [sic] and they were swell. I…
Letter to Yvette from Howard, June 28, 1942
Fort Knox, Kentucky
June 28, 1942
Yve Darling
I love you darling. I just got finished working K.P. all day to-day [sic] isn’t that a nice thing to do. y How would you like to serve and wash and dry dishes for about 200 guys three times a day. I…
Tags: Hike, K.P., Military life, Pine Camp
Letter to Yvette from Howard, June 4, 1942
Fort Knox, Kentucky
June 4, 1942
Darling little Yve
I love you. [Y]ou asked me in the letter to-day [sic] if I wanted you to come down, well of course I do It [sic] is just that I found out to day [sic] that we have to have a dress parade in…
Tags: Military life, Parade, Routine
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Postcard of Nurse Axness and the first patients at the Concordia College hospital, circa 1910
Postcard of Nurse Axness and the first patients, probably ailed by scarlet fever, at the Concordia College hospital, circa 1910