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Letter from Howard to Yvette, May 23, 1944
[The following is written on official United States Army stationary]
May 23, 1944
10:00 P.M.
Dearest Yve
I love you so very much to-night [sic] that I think maybe I’m going crazy. I went to see the chaplain to night [sic] but he…
Letter from Howard to Yvette, May 22, 1944
[The following is written on official United States Army stationary]
May 22, 1944
10:00 P.M.
Hello Darling, I got a letter from you to day [sic] and I’m glad that your dad and mother know. I haven’t quite finished that letter but I guess…
Letter to Yvette from Howard, June 21, 1942
Fort Knox, Kentucky
June 21, 1932
Darling Yve
I got your box of stuff. I don’t know how to spell what it is so I called it stuff. No hard feelings huh! I ate them all befroe I went to bed [S]aturday. Al Mortenson said they were the best he ever…
Tags: Military life, Military training, P.X., Sunburn
Letter to Yvette from Howard, June 19, 1942
Fort Knox, Kentucky
June 19, 1942
Darling Yve
I got your picture to-day [sic] and they are pretty good, I like you in white. I am sorry that you got a cold and I hope it gets better quick. Well darling we are here practicing feild [sic] drills…
Tags: Military life, Radio
Letter from Howard to Yvette, May 21, 1944
[The following is written on official United States Army stationary]
May 21, 1944
5:30 P.M.
Yve darling,
I love you so much gee I miss you to day [sic]. I got your double letter to day [sic] and gee I don’t know what to do. I wish I…
Letter from Howard to Yvette, May 20, 1944
[The following is written on official United States Army Stationary]
May 20, 1944
10:30 P.M.
Hello Darling,
Gee darling I’m lonesome to night [sic] and wish I could see you just for a little while but I guess I can wait. I got a nice…
Letter from Howard to Yvette, May 19, 1944
[The following is written on official United States Army stationary]
May 19, 1944
8:00 P.M.
Darling.
I didn’t write last night because after I had supper and washed I layed [sic] down for a few minutes, well the few minutes ran in to…
Letter from Howard to Yvette, May 17, 1944
[The following is written on official United States Army stationary]
May 17, 1944
10:30 P.M.
Hi Shorty
Darling I still love you even if you are a tiny thing. I went for my first instruction to-night [sic] and we had a nice long talk.…
Letter to Yvette from Howard, June 18, 1942
Fort Knox, Kentucky
June 18, 1942
Yve Darling
I have been pretty busy the last two or three days. I was out on the machine gun range and didn’t get back until the light went out [W]ednsday and [T]hursday. I had a detail until ten o’clock and to…
Tags: Machine Gun, Military life, money
Letter to Yvette from Howard, June 18, 1942
Fort Knox, Kentucky
June 18, 1942
Here is a picture of me sleeping don’t I look nice. Don’t forget what I told you in the letter that will come with this. Love
Howard
[This was written on a postcard with a picture of a soldier sleeping with…
Tags: Sleeping
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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