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Letter to Yvette from Howard, September 10, 1942
Fort Knox, Kentucky
Sept 10, 1942
Darling:
I just go finished reading your letter and I feel much better now, I just found out to day [sic] that I’m not going to Arkansas or Calif. I’m going to stay here for the present and as for a promotion I…
Tags: Dance, Film, Holiday Inn, Love
Letter to Yvette from Howard, September 19, 1944
[Camp Campbell, Kentucky]
Sept. 19, 1944
Tuesday
Hello darling,
Gee it’s getting so I don’t know what day of the week it is. This is the first time I’ve had to write for the last two nights. I just got in from another one of those night problems…
Letter to Yvette from Howard, December 23, 1943
Camp Campbell, Ky. [Kentucky]
Dec. 23, 1943
Dear Yvette,
Well its [sic] me again and feeling in the pink again almost. Anyway a lot better than I did yesterday. How are you? You know that next door neighbor of mine back home, well I got a letter…
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
Letter to Yvette from Howard, December 22, 1943
Camp Campbell, Ky. [Kentucky]
Dec. 22, 1943
Hello Darling,
Well darling I guess I didn’t knock on wood hard enough because I caught one of those colds and got taken for a ride to the doctors and he made me stay in bed since monday [sic]. Well…
Letter to Yvette from Howard, September 17, 1944
[Camp Campbell, Kentucky]
Sunday
Sept. 17, 1944
10:00 A.M.
Dear Mummy,
Well I’m still OK as you’ll know when you get this letter. I went to town friday, I mean I started to go when I got called to duty. They needed some one [sic] to drive them…
Letter to Yvette from Howard, December 19, 1943
Camp Campbell Ky. [Kentucky]
Dec. 19, 1943
Hello Darling,
Gee its [sic] been a long time since I’ve written to you but I’ve had little too much work in the feild [sic]. Friday morning we left the company for a three day bivouac which didn’t last…
Letter to Yvette from Howard, September 14, 1944
[Camp Campbell, Kentucky]
Sept. 14, 1944
Thursday
Hello Mummy,
Well even with that air mail stamp it didn’t get here until to-day [sic] so I guess its [sic] no use to try to get me a letter on Tuesday. Darling I guess the war must be over because…
Letter to Yvette from Howard, September 2, 1942
Fort Knox, Kentucky
Sept. 2, 1942
My Dearest Wife
I just finished taking a shower and I’m laying on my bunk writing to you. Gee I miss you It[‘]s been --- down here lately. I got a sore arm to-night [sic] I just got finished shooting. I got a bout…
Letter to Yvette from Howard, December 16, 1943
[at the top and center of the page the Camp Campbell logo is printed with CAMP CAMPBELL, KENTUCKY printed under the logo]
Dec. 16, 1943
Dear Yvette:
Well how are you these fine winter evenings? Is it as cold up there as it is down here? Darling I…
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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