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Letter to Yvette from Howard, March 7, 1943
Dear Yvette
How is everything with you to-day [sic]? I am now in the guard house. I just came off past and nothing has happened so far, but I’ll have to go back in about a half hour. I still love you and I wish I could see you. I had a dream about…
Letter to Yvette from Howard, March 8, 1943
Dear Yve:
I just got the box of cookies that you sent and there [sic] good and I got two letters from you to-day [sic] to [sic]. Well I haven’t done much to-day [sic] but at seven o’clock to night [sic]. They lined us all up and and we had to have…
Tags: Homesickness, Love
Letter to Yvette from Howard, March 10, 1943
Hi Darling
How is everything back home? I got another letter from you today. Gee I wish I was there with you eating apple pie and ice cream. I wouldn’t be able to give up eating between meals because if I did that I would starve. You think your…
Letter to Yvette from Howard, March 13, 1943
Dear Yve
How is every little thing with you tonight? I haven’t written to you for the last two days because I was working to [sic] a hours out on the range, but today I got off a little easy instead of doing a lot of work on the range I had to take…
Tags: duty, Homesickness
Letter to Yvette from Howard, March 14, 1943
Hi [D]arling
Well here I am again, just a little boy who can’t forget that he’s got the most beautiful girl in the world back in [S]outhbridge waiting for him till the war is ended. Darling I sure love you, why today I went to town and I missed you…
Tags: Homesickness
Letter to Yvette from Howard, September 29, 1943
[at the top and center of the page the Camp Campbell logo is printed with CAMP CAMPBELL, KENTUCKY printed under the logo]
Sept. 29, 1943
11:30 PM
Hello darling,
Well here I am back from the fight and am sitting in the shower room to write so if…
Letter to Yvette from Howard, March 23, 1943.
Camp Campbell, Kentucky
March 23, 1943
Darling:
Well here I am. All alone in the commanding officer’s office working out my change of quarters, (CQ), in army language. Well to-morrow [sic] the company has off that means no duties but I’ll have to…
Tags: loneliness, Military life
Letter to Yvette from Howard, March 25, 1943
Camp Campbell, Kentucky
March 25, 1943
Dear Yvette;
I just got another letter from you to-day [sic] and yes darling I can read that french that you wrote and I love you to [sic]. Darling I don’t think I’ll send you any money this pay day because…
Tags: furloughs
Letter to Yvette from Howard, March 28, 1943
Camp Campbell, Kentucky
March 28, 1943
Hi Yve:
I just got the letter you wrote and in it you don’t seem to want me to come home right away, but if I get a furlough I have to come or wait for an other [sic] four or five months to get one. Darling…
Letter to Yvette from Howard, March 29, 1943.
Camp Campbell, Kentucky
March 29, 1943
Yvette, darling:
Darling it was sweet of you to send me that picture of yourself. I sure miss you so much that now with three pictures of the most wonderful gal in the world [it] helps met overcome my lonely…
Tags: recreation, theatre
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