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- Tags: money
Letter to Yvette for Howard, June 7, 1942
Fort Knox, Kentucky
June 7, 1942
Darling Yve,
I got the box and the cookies were swell, you didn’t forget my candy either. Well I got the letters and the box of cookies [F]riday and I had extra duties until 9:30 [F]riday night so I didn’t get a…
Letter to Yvette from Howard, August 3, 1942
Fort Knox, Kentucky
Aug. 3, 1942
Darling Wife
I love you so much that I pretend that we’re married. Well here it is a day before payday and there is’nt [sic] a thin dime in the camp aint [sic] that something. What is that party that you said you…
Tags: Birthday, Film, money, This Above All
Letter to Yvette from Howard, August 9, 1942
Fort Knox, Kentucky
Aug. 9, 1942
Hi Darling
How are you to-day [sic] [?] What new? Are you going out to visit your Aunt with your sister or what? I am still trying to find out the exact day that my pass will start on. I wish I knew so I could tell…
Letter to Yvette from Howard, July 4, 1942
Fort Knox, Kentucky
July 4, 1942
Hi darling
How’s everything[?] I am very lonesome down here how about you[?] You won’t get any letters for about three days because I didn’t write any. You know it isn’t my fault though because I out on the…
Tags: Cowboy picture, Hike, money, shuttle shop
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, October 5, 1942
Fort Knox, Kentucky
Oct 5, 1942
Hi Darling
I got a new job now and it kind of hard at the begining [sic] but it will get better. First I’ll tell you that I couldn’t get mass on the long distance I tried all [S]aturday night and then I tried from 7…
Tags: candy, money, New Job, Post Office
Letter to Yvette from Howard, September 14, 1942
Fort Knox, Kentucky
Sept. 14, 1942
Hello Darling
I’m sorry for not writing every day but I’m having a hard time lately. It sure is hot down here, this afternoon it was a 103° in the shade but they say it will get cooler. Gee darling I miss you. I…
Letter to Yvette from Howard, September 5, 1942
Louisville, Kentucky
Sept. 5, 1942
Yve Darling
Here it is payday and I didn’t get any pay. I was redlined. They made a mistake up in headquarters and my pay didn’t go through so I have to wait intil [sic] next month isn’t that [illegible…
Tags: evelyn, money, payday, sharpshooter, Training
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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