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Linsey Jo (Wichman) Bosl, Oral History Interview, 2014
Library entrance of Fjelstad Hall during the wintertime
Tags: Buildings
Letter to Yvette's parents from Howard and Yvette, August 15, 1944
[Camp Campbell, Kentucky]
Dear Mother + Dad,
While Yvette is getting ready for bed I’m going to thank you for having allowed her to come see me. We are having a grand time to gether [sic] so it was worth that long trip. I also want to thank you…
Letter to Yvette from Howard. April 12, 1943.
Camp Campbell, Kentucky
April 12, 1943
Hello darling.
Here I am again. I got your letter a little while ago and I was just going to ask you where I could send a card to so your Grandmother could get it? Now I won’t have to ask. Well I[‘m] shure…
Tags: duty, loneliness, recruits
Letter to Yvette from Howard, September 9, 1944
[Camp Campbell, Kentucky]
Sept. 9, 1944
8:00 P.M.
Dear Mummy,
Well you can’t give me the devil for not writing because I just got back from a three day problem and darling nobody could write. We started out Wednesday morning at five o’clock and…
Letter to Yvette from Howard, September 8, 1943.
Camp Campbell, Kentucky
Sept. [September] 8, 1943
Dear Yve:
Well how are you to-day [sic]? I’m feeling OK [sic] but I got C.Q. [Charge of Quarters] to day [sic] and anything I hate more is to be charge of quarters. First I want to thank you for…
Letter to Yvette from Howard, September 6, 1943.
Camp Campbell, Kentucky
Sept. [September] 6, 1943
Hello darling:
Well how are you to-night [sic]? Gee I wish I could be with you and I didn’t mean it like it sounded in that letter. In the letter it sounded like I didn’t like ohm life with you.…
Tags: chain of command, policy
Letter to Yvette from Howard, September 5, 1944
Sept. 5, 1944
5:30 P.M.
Hello darling,
Well blue Tuesday and no letter to day [sic] but I know why so I don’t feel so bad. We had some pretty good news to day [sic] but it didn’t last long. I mean about the war with germany. Oh well I guess the…
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, September 4, 1944
Sept. 4, 1944
8:00 P.M.
Dear Mummy,
Well this is the first day of bivouac and as usual it rained, but it was a good thing because it got cooler after. If you can’t read this its [sic] because its [sic] too dark and black out rules says you can’t…
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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