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Camp Campbell, Kentucky
Aug. [August] 28, 1943
Hi kid:
How’s the rough old world treating you to-day [sic]? I can’t complain because I’m still on this side of the pond. While I was home they shipped a lot of boys over. Boy is it hot down here.…

[Camp Campbell, Kentucky]
Aug. 28, 1944
8:30 P.M.
Dear Yve.,
Its just me again and I’m on duty to-night. [sic] It seems that it’s my turn to drive guard to-night [sic] so here I am with a little peep (the same one you rode in when you came out to…

Camp Campbell, Kentucky
August 29, 1943
Sunday.
Hello Honey:
I’m writing you now just in case I won’t have time later. Tell Jil that she’s just a big baby and I mean it to. You know darling Norman never even mention Vi in his letter to me. Is…

[Camp Campbell, Kentucky]
Aug. 29, 1944
9:45 P.M.
Hi Yve.,
What are you doing to-night? Well I’m just about ready to go to bed, but now I’m up in my squad leaders room and writing. You see the light went out and the sgt. being a good egg said I…

Fort Knox, Kentucky
Aug. 3, 1942
Darling Wife
I love you so much that I pretend that we’re married. Well here it is a day before payday and there is’nt [sic] a thin dime in the camp aint [sic] that something. What is that party that you said you…

[Written on United States Army stationery]
[Camp Campbell, Kentucky]
Aug. 3, 1944
6:00 P.M.
Dear Mummy,
I’m writing to you this letter to tell you that you can take an early train Monday morning and you’ll arrive some time Tuesday evening. If…

Fort Knox, Kentucky
Aug. 30, 1942
Darling
I just arrived at the camp and boy is [sic] is hot. I miss you and how. These brownies were swell. I got in [W]orcester and I met Vic and her brother as I got off the bus you know Proulx’s girlfriend. Then…

[Camp Campbell, Kentucky]
Aug. 30, 1944
9:00 P.M.
Dear Yvette,
Its [sic] only me again and just as lonely as ever. I just got through with one of those may [sic] reading classes and I went back to the barracks to write a letter but just as I…

Camp Campbell, Kentcuky
Aug. [August] 31, 1943
10:30 PM
Hello darling:
It[‘]s getting late and I don’t know just what to write to-night [sic]. It[‘]s been eleven days since I’ve seen you and its [sic] seems like eleven years. I sure do miss you.…

Fort Knox, Kentucky
Aug. 5, 1942
Hello Darling
How are you to-day [sic][?] You asked me in your letter to-day [sic] if I could tell you if I was coming home the 3rd week in Aug. for sure. I can’t tell you but I hope so. They already started to…