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- Tags: Military life
Letter to Yvette from Howard, August 17, 1942
Fort Knox, Kentucky
Aug 17, 1942
Hi Darling
How do you like Detroit? I’m glad you got my letter I was a little worried that you wouldn’t get it in time. I just got some bad news Sat. The First Sarg. said that it will be another month before we get…
Tags: Detroit, furlough, Military life
Letter to Yvette from Howard, August 12, 1942
Fort Knox, Kentucky
Aug. 12, 1942
Dear Yve
This is just a note to tell you that I am not coming home the week of the 15th. It will be a little latter [sic] on in the month. I love you. Love
Howard
[the letter also includes a envelope]
Tags: Leave, Military life
Letter to Yvette from Howard, October 21, 1942
Fort Knox, Kentucky
Oct. 21, 1942
Hi Darling
I feel swell now since I got your letter. I sure hope [N]orman comes down here because I sure want to see you even more than you want to see me. I went to bed early last night and I had a wonderful…
Tags: Dance, dream, Love, Military life
Letter to Yvette from Howard, October 20, 1942
Fort Knox, Kentucky
Oct. 20, 1942
Hi Darling
It me again I glad my Mother calls you one of the family because you will soon be if you don’t change your mind. I don’t think much of phil girl but I not much of a judge of other people gals I only saw…
Tags: Military life, Teeth, Tight sweater girl, Xmas
Letter to Yvette from Howard, October 6, 1942
Fort Knox, Kentucky
Oct. 6, 1942
Dear Yve:
How are you feeling to-day [sic][?] here it is ten o’clock in the morning and I’m writing you a letter from my little office. Darling I miss you a lot and I was feeling kind of blue last night so I went…
Tags: A Yank at Eton, Film, Love, Military life
Letter to Yvette from Howard, September 30, 1942
Fort Knox, Kentucky
Sept 30, 1942
Yvette Darling
I love you. You said in your letter that my mother got at least 3 letters a week. I only wrote her 2 letters since I got my furlough. You know darling that I love you and would write you if I ever…
Tags: Military life, Ship
Letter to Yvette from Howard, September 27, 1942
Fort Knox, Kentucky
Sept 27, 1942
Darling
I sorry for what I said in the letter yester day [sic] but I could’nt [sic] help it. If it was’nt [sic] for you I would go oversea’s [sic] to-morrow [sic] but I don’t want to if I can have you. I love you…
Tags: Military life, Pregnant
Letter to Yvette from Howard, July 27, 1942
Fort Knox, Kentucky
July 27, 1942
Darling Yve
I just got your letter telling me how downhearted you are and I am sorry but there is nothing I can do about it but I wish I could though. I just got some news that I might be able to go home the last…
Tags: Beer, Downhearted, K.P., Military life
Letter to Yvette from Howard, July 12, 1942
Fort Knox, Kentucky
July 12, 1942
Darling Yve,
I wish I were with you right now. You don’t know how much I miss you. I got the box of cookies you sent me to-day [sic] and they were really good. They came all in one piece too. You know I got Sat.…
Tags: Bus, Military life, Roland
Letter to Yvette from Howard, July 8, 1942
Fort Knox, Kentucky
July 8, 1942
Yve Darling
I just got your letter telling me how lonely you are, well I feel the same way about you. I love you so much it hurts. At night just before I go to bed I got a lot of time to think and I think of all…
Tags: Love, Military life, Truck
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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