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Letter from Howard to Yvette, April 17, 1944
[The following letter is written on official United States Army stationary]
Camp Campbell, Ky.
April 17, 1944
Dear Halfpint,
Well hows [sic] every little thing to night [sic]? Gee I’m lonesome now but I guess I’ll get over it. The…
Tags: family, furlough, Military life, weapons
Letter from Howard to Yvette, April 16, 1944
The following letter is written on official United States Army stationary]
Camp Campbell, Ky.
April 16, 1944
Hello little darling,
I still love you and even if you are a problem child you don’t know what a problem I’ll be. Well…
Tags: bivouac, Clothing, family, Military life, movie
Letter from Howard to Yvette, April 13, 1944
Camp Campbell, Ky.
April 13, 1944
Hello darling,
I love you and I just got back from bivouac and it was really a nice warm night, but any way I’m glad to be back. Gee darling the way you talk [N]orman + [M]idgie [?] must be awful happy.…
Letter from Howard to Yvette, April 11, 1944
Camp Campbell, Ky.
April 11, 1944
Hello Darling,
Well how’s my little half-pint curly top to-night [sic]? Gee darling I love you so darn much that I can’t put in to [sic] word[s] how I feel. Darling will you forgive me for not writing…
Letter from Howard to Yvette, April 9, 1944
Camp Campbell, Ky.
April 9, 1944
Dearest Yve.
Well as you know darling I haven’t forgotten you as yet and I don’t think I ever will. Well we did go on bivouac as I thought and we stayed there until this morning and it rained almost all…
Letter from Howard to Yvette, April 5, 1944
Camp Campbell, Ky.
April 5, 1944
Hello darling:
I got another letter from you to day [sic] and you said you saw Jane Eyre, well I saw it about two months before you. I’ll admit it was very different. Well anyway it [is] a different kind…
Letter to Yvette from Howard, November 3, 1945
Nov. 3, 1945
Saturday
Hello Darling,
Well its [sic] just me again and just back from a hard day at work and I mean work. I don’t know when I’ll go back again to that jail because I don’t know when I get my next pass but the work make [sic] the…
Letter to Yvette from Howard, November 1, 1945
Nov. 1, 1945
Thursday
Dearest Wife,
Well darling this is my second day of work and it [sic] really fun. Don’t get me wrong tho darling it [sic] really hard work. There [sic] only one catch to this job I get tired at night but I got a beautiful…
Letter from Howard to Yvette, April 4, 1944
Camp Campbell, Ky.
April 4, 1944
8:30 P.M.
Dear Yvette,
Well how’s everything to night [sic]? I’m getting over those blues but I still miss you. To day [sic] was one of those cold raining day’s [sic] when you[‘d] rather stay in bed…
Letter to Yvette from Howard, October 31, 1945
Oct. 31, 1945
Wednesday
Dearest Yve.,
Well how’s everything at home to-day? I didn’t write last night but I know you’ll excuse me because I got a five day pass and went out hunting for a job to work the five days. I got one out of camp in a…
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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