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- Tags: furlough
Letter from Howard to Yvette, May 14, 1944
[The following is written on official United States Army stationary]
May 14, 1944
07:00 P.M.
Hello darling
I didn’t sleep a wink last night and thats [sic] not the name of a sog either. I got to thinking of you and I don’t know why…
Letter from Howard to Yvette, May 15, 1944
[The following is written on official United States Army stationary]
May 15, 1944
9:00 P.M.
Dearest Darling,
I love you. I love you. I love you. That’s how I feel to-night [sic]. It may sound funny to you but I just got back from…
Letter from Howard to Yvette, May 17, 1944
[The following is written on official United States Army stationary]
May 17, 1944
10:30 P.M.
Hi Shorty
Darling I still love you even if you are a tiny thing. I went for my first instruction to-night [sic] and we had a nice long talk.…
Letter from Howard to Yvette, May 28, 1944
[The following is written on official United States Army stationary]
May 28, 1944
Hello darling,
Well here it is [S]unday and I miss you more all the time. Gee darling sundays are more lonely than the other day and gee I wish I could see…
Tags: furlough, instruction, recital, school
Letter from Howard to Yvette, May 31, 1944
[The following is written on official United States Army stationary]
May 31, 1944
10:45 P.M.
Hello darling,
I’m sorry if I offended you by writing and telling my sister Betty that I would probably get my furlough around the tenth of…
Letter from Howard to Yvette, June 1, 1944
[The following is written on official United States Army stationary]
June 1, 1944
11:50 P.M.
Hello beautiful;
How are you to-night [sic]? I went for my instructions again to-night [sic] and the chaplain is still waiting for the form…
Tags: family, furlough, instruction, letter
Letter to Yvette from Howard, April 5, 1943.
Camp Campbell, Kentucky
April 5, 1943
Hello darling.
Well I got three letters to day [sic] and I’m sorry if I said anything in them (I mean my letter or letters to you) to hurt your feeling[s]. That would be the last thing I would ever want to do.…
Tags: furlough, sleep depravation
Letter to Yvette from Howard, August 5, 1942
Fort Knox, Kentucky
Aug. 5, 1942
Hello Darling
How are you to-day [sic][?] You asked me in your letter to-day [sic] if I could tell you if I was coming home the 3rd week in Aug. for sure. I can’t tell you but I hope so. They already started to…
Letter to Yvette from Howard, August 15, 1942
Fort Knox, Kentucky
Aug. 15, 1942
Darling Yve
I sent you a letter by Air Mail and you should have got it by Thurs. I could’nt [sic] leave the Co. [Illeigelbe deletion] to send a telegram or call you up so I hope you got this it in time. I put in…
Tags: Doctor, furlough, Inspection, shot
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
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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