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[The following is written on official United States Army stationary]

Camp Campbell, Ky.

April 28, 1944


Dear Yve.

I just got your letter and gee honey I envy Norman. Some guys get all the luck. Well anyway it must feel good to be home…

[The following is written on Official United States Army stationary]

Camp Campbell, Ky.

April 30, 1944


Hello darling,

Well it’s Sunday again and its [sic] raining and I’m so darn lonesome when I get a day off. I went to the hospital…

Camp Campbell, Ky.

April 4, 1944

8:30 P.M.


Dear Yvette,

Well how’s everything to night [sic]? I’m getting over those blues but I still miss you. To day [sic] was one of those cold raining day’s [sic] when you[‘d] rather stay in bed…

Camp Campbell, Ky.

April 5, 1944


Hello darling:

I got another letter from you to day [sic] and you said you saw Jane Eyre, well I saw it about two months before you. I’ll admit it was very different. Well anyway it [is] a different kind…

Camp Campbell, Ky.

April 9, 1944


Dearest Yve.

Well as you know darling I haven’t forgotten you as yet and I don’t think I ever will. Well we did go on bivouac as I thought and we stayed there until this morning and it rained almost all…

Dec. 16, 1944
9:00 P.M.
Dear Yvette,
Well I got two nice letters from you to day which makes me feel a lot better. If you want me to I’ll go in town and check on that reservation at the hotel. I just can’t wait until you come down though. You…

[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…

[The following is written on official United States Army stationary]

June 2, 1944

10:30 P.M.


Dearest darling,

Did I ever tell you how much I love you? Well I love you so much that even if I had a hundred years to tell you how much I…

June 25, 1944

2:30 P.M.


Hi Mummy,

I love you so much darling and I even miss you more. Well I’m back in camp again and I wish I had stayed with you. I got back about four thirty this morning and was I tired. Well I feel good now though…

June 26, 1944

8:30 P.M.


Hello daring,

It’s me again and I’m still pealing [sic] from that sunburn I got at the beach but I don’t mind because it make[s] me think of you more and gee darling I miss you. Darling I am sending you a copy of…