Letter from Howard to Yvette, April 13, 1944

Letter from Howard to Yvette, April 13, 1944

Military Life

He mentions a lot of their friends in this letter. One man mentioned by Yvette got Howard jealous. He describes what a rocket launcher is. He concludes by saying how much he wants to be with her and how much he wants to marry her.

Sarty, Howard L., 1919-1977

Harvey, Gretchen (donor)

Courtesy of the Concordia College Archives

1944-04-13

Haekenkamp, Daniele (digitization, transcription, metadata)

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Correspondences

English

Text

1944-05-13

Camp Campbell, KY

Correspondences

Camp Campbell, Ky.

April 13, 1944


Hello darling,

I love you and I just got back from bivouac and it was really a nice warm night, but any way I’m glad to be back. Gee darling the way you talk [N]orman + [M]idgie [?] must be awful happy. You make me envy them so darn much. Darling why bring Eddie up if you ever go out with him I guess I’ll have to go home and shoot him or something and darling you wouldn’t want me to be called a murderer would you? About the rocket launcher It looks like a peice [sic] of


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pipe about five ft. long and 2 ½ inches in dia. and flies a rocket twenty one inches long which weighs about three lbs. max. range is three hundred yds. and used mostly againste against tanks and pill-boxes. Gee darling I miss you so much and I do want to get married so much but the war is going to be over this year I hope so I’ll be with you next winter. I love you and please darling wait for me. I love you. As Ever

Howard


[The following is written as a post script]

P.S. I don’t know how to tell you how much I love you so all I can say is I love you.