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Camp Campbell, Kentucky
May 2, 1943
Hello darling:
Well here it is Sunday and I got a little time off. I haven’t written for the past three or four days because the mater Sgt. [Sergeant] has been sick and I had to take his place while he’s out.…


Camp Campbell, Kentucky
May 4, 1943
10:00 PM.
Hello darling:
Well to-day [sic] I think I’ve worked the hardest that I ever worked since I came in the army. First the motor Sgt. [Sergeant] took sick and they sent him to the doctor and about an…

Fort Devens, Massachusetts

May 4th 1942

Darling Yve;
How do you feel now that I not[sic] around any more. [A]re you staying home every night or going out[?]. Excuse the writing because I am laying down and writing on a book. This morning I was…

Laufen, Germany
May 31, 1945
Hi darling,
It [sic] only me again and I feel like a drowned rat I just came in from a six hour guard and we got one of those Kentucky rainy days and I mean it rains here. Boy I’m sleepy tonight and I’m going to bed…


Camp Campbell, Kentucky
May 31, 1943
7:30 PM.
Hello darling:
I just got one of your letters that you sent me with the address upside down. What[‘]s the matter is everything up there upside down like it is down home? I got a pass Saturday night…

Fort Knox, Kentucky
May 31, 1942

Dear Yve,
Are you lonesome[?] I am but there is nothing I can do about it. I got the candy you sent me. It was swell. Well darling I’m lost without you but with you I would be sitting on top of the world. (I…

Laufen, Germany
May 30, 1945
Hello darling,
I got a letter from you to-day [sic] and its [sic] a big mistake because I never been to England and didn’t get near a mike, so how could people hear me. I wish I was in England thou [sic] because then…

May 28, 1945
11:30 P.M.
Hello darling,
Well darling its [sic] kind of late for me to be writing but I just can’t sleep knowing I can write and didn’t. Nothing exciting happened to-day [sic] I just drove and pulled guard, and I got to go back on at…

Camp Campbell, Kentucky
May 28, 1943
Hello darling:
Well it[‘s] about time I started writing again don’t you think? I’ve been so darn busy lately that I haven’t had anytime at all..You see it’s the last week of the recruit[‘]s basic training and…

Fort Knox, Kentucky
May 28, 1942

Darling Yve,
I am having a swell time. I just got back from the hike that we started out on Monday morning. First off it was raining for two days and oh well I’ll start off with the beginning. We left camp monday…