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- Tags: Military life
Letter to Yvette from Howard, May 4, 1942
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…
Tags: Love, Military life, Sand Storm
Letter to Yvette from Howard, May 10, 1942
Fort Knox, Kentucky
May 10, 1942
Darling Yve,
Here I am down south in the hills and don't like it because it is so hot. We left Devons at five o’clock [F]riday and arrived 10 o’clock [S]unday and what a trip. I was hoping I would be able to…
Tags: Fort Knox, Leave, Military life
Letter to Yvette from Howard, May 12, 1942
Fort Knox, Kentucky
May 12, 1942
Darling Yve,
Here I am as tired as can be. I want you to write me at the address on this envelope, how is everything back home[?] I just came back from a 10 mile hike and don’t feel like going anywhere. I got a…
Tags: drill, Hiking, Military life
Letter to Yvette from Howard, May 1942
Fort Knox, Kentucky
Darling Yve,
How are you[?] I haven’t heard from you for a long time. Why don't you write. I am fine I have a Tan from my forehead to my [illeligible deletion] shoulder’s [sic] and is it [sic] hot down here. You know I would…
Tags: Dissapointed, Military life
Letter to Yvette from Howard, May 16, 1942
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…
Tags: Doctor, Love, Military life
Letter to Yvette from Howard, May 18, 1942
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…
Tags: Girls, Love, Military life, Military training
Letter to Yvette from Howard, May 20, 1942
Fort Knox, Kentucky
May 20, 1942
Dear sweet,
I just got an other [sic] letter from you to-day [sic] so sorry you feel so blue. Why don’t you go out and have a good time the time will go by faster. Well darling I went out last night an[d] went to…
Tags: Film, homesick, Military life
Letter to Yvette from Howard, May 1942
Fort Knox, Kentucky
No date
Darling Yve,
I am getting quite a lot of mail I just got two more letters from you and one from my mother. Why don’t you go out and have a good time don’t do like me. I go to bed at 9 o’clock every night. There isn’t…
Tags: Military life
Letter to Yvette from Howard, May 23, 1942
Fort Knox, Kentucky
May 23, 1942
Darling Yve,
It's ok to write or send any thing [sic] you want to because I am receiving your letters everyday now. Don’t be afraid that I won’t get what you send darling because I will. The army life is getting…
Tags: Army life, Bag pipes, Military life, Payroll
Letter to Yvette from Howard, May 24, 1942
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…
Tags: Bad habits, Gambling, Love, Military life, smoking
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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