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Camp Campbell, Kentucky
August 5, 1943
Hi darling: Well how are you to-day [sic]? You probaly think it’s funny that I’ve haven’t written to you lately but it [is] only because I’ve been through a week of (hell) last week. I had to use that word but…

Fort Knox, Kentucky
Aug. 9, 1942
Hi Darling
How are you to-day [sic] [?] What new? Are you going out to visit your Aunt with your sister or what? I am still trying to find out the exact day that my pass will start on. I wish I knew so I could tell…

Camp Campbell, Kentucky
August 9, 1943
11:00 PM
Hello darling:
Well darling I guess you think I forgot all about you but I didn’t. You see, I had to go back to the feild [sic] to finish up some training before I leave on furlough. By the way, you…

Hello [D]arling:
I bet you can’t guess what this is. I give you these guesses and the first one will be right. Hows [sic] beautiful little lady to day [sic]? Yes I mean you. You know [D]arling that you can eat all the cheese you want but I still…

Camp Campbell, Ky. [Kentucky]
Dec 1, 1943
Hi Darling
Its [sic] kind of lonesome down here to night [sic] because my buddy has left on a furlough. His wife got tired of being married to him so he’s gone home to become unmarried to something. He got…

Dec. 1, 1944
9:30 P.M.
Dearest darling and wife + no kids,
Well here I am again just so happy as every but I got a few things on my mind. First what do you want for christmas [sic] and second is what to get my folks for christmas [sic] that has me…

Dec. 1, 1945
Saturday.
Dearest Wife,
Well honey my ankle is a little better to day [sic] and I hobble up to the how. It will feel better in a couple of days and I’ll be running around with the rest of the boys again. I still got four more days…

Dec. 10, 1944
6:00 P.M.
Dearest darling wife,
Well darling its [sic] the same old thing you get up in the morning lay around all day and go back to bed again. I didn’t write last night because I went to town to find you something for christmas…

Dec. 10, 1945
Monday
Dearest darling Wife + ?
Well I’m just about sure now that I’ll be home for christmas. I’m supposed to start processing on Wednesday morning and I ought to be out about friday and home in a [illegible deletion] week or less. …

Dec. 11, 1944
8:00 P.M.
Dear Yvette,
Well darling it snowed all day to day [sic] and all we got to show for it is just enough to cover the ground. Its [sic] starting to freeze now and its [sic] quite windy now too. I’m just about frozen with out…