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Letter to Yvette from Howard, April 20, 1943.
Camp Campbell, Kentucky
April 20, 1943
Hi darling:
Are you lonesome? Gee I wish I could drop in and see you like old times. Last night after I wrote you a letter I started to think of all the good times I’ve had with you. It started back to the…
Tags: loneliness
Letter to Yvette from Howard, April 19, 1943.
Camp Campbell, Kentucky
April 19, 1943
Hello darling:
How’s everything back home? As for me I think I’m going nuts. I got up this morning at four and had chow at four-thirty then I started my work for the day. That was alright until about…
Tags: WAACs
Letter to Yvette from Howard, April 16, 1943.
Camp Campbell, Kentucky
April 16, 1943
Hello darling:
Well darling I guess we’re both in the same boat. I got a cold to[o] and I’ve been taking pills to[o]. It isn’t warm down here anymore. Yesterday we had a snow storm. I think I caught my cold…
Tags: Military life, sickness
Letter to Yvette from Howard, April 14, 1943.
Camp Campbell, Kentucky
April 14, 1943
Hello darling:
I love you so much and I wish I could see you. I didn’t write to you last night because I had to move all my stuff (such as clothes and bed) down to the motor pack up. You see, I’m back at my…
Tags: furloughs
Letter to Yvette from Howard, February 27, 1944
Feb. 27, 1944
Camp Campbell Ky [Kentucky]
Yvette darling,
I wish you knew how much I miss you. I love you so much that I don’t think I can live much longer with out [sic] you. Darling you know my boss has a little daughter that is named Judy and…
Letter to Yvette from Howard, October 4, 1944
[Tennesee, somewhere near Lebanon]
Oct. 4, 1944
Wednesday
Hello darling,
I’m sorry to hear that your [sic] so blue because I feel pretty good. I got time off yesterday and got to a little town called Lebanon, Tenn. and tried to call you up but I…
Letter to Yvette from Howard, February 23, 1944
Feb. 23, 1944
10:45 P.M.
Hello darling,
I love you, I love you, I love you, now I got that said do you still love me and if you do keep on because I love you. This letter is going to sound kind of crazy to you, but don’t mind it because I feel…
Letter to Yvette from Howard, October 2, 1944
[Written on United States Army stationery]
[Tennessee, somewhere near Nashville]
Oct. 2, 1944
Monday
Dear Yve,
Well how’s everything with you way back home? Everything down here is fine except I get homesick. I’m sitting out here in the woods…
Letter to Yvette from Howard, February 19, 1944
[The following letter was written on Hotel McCurdy paper. There are images of various hotels on the top of the page along with a Hotel McCurdy logo]
Feb. 19, 1944
12:30 P.M.
Hello darling
You may be wondering how I came to be in Indiana, well its…
Letter to Yvette from Howard, February 16, 1944
Feb. 16, 1944
10:00 A.M.
Goodmorning Darling:
How are you to day [sic]? I’m having a great time out in the country you see we’re right up near the battle front [sic] and will go into action any time not, but I take time out to write you a letter.…
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