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Letter to Yvette from Howard, June 17, 1942
Fort Knox, Kentucky
June 17, 1942
Darling Yve,
I have been so darn busy I haven’t been able to write. I been on the go all the time. I’m sorry if you think that I don’t want to write but some times [sic] it impossible. In your letter you think I…
Tags: Blackout, Love, Military life, Passing out
Letter to Yvette from Howard, June 29, 1944
[Written on United States Army stationery]
[Camp Campbell, Kentucky]
June 29, 1944
10:00 P.M.
Dear Mummy,
You wouldn’t listen to me when I told you you wouldn’t be one but you had to wait and find out for yourself. Well darling I got up early…
Letter from Howard to Yvette, May 13, 1944
[The following is written on official U S O stationary]
May 13, 1944
Darling:
Well darling I’m going to see the chaplain to morrow [sic] after noon [sic]. I won’t be able to see him to-day [sic] because I can’t get off until seven thirty…
Letter from Howard to Yvette, May 14, 1944
[The following is written on official United States Army stationary]
May 14, 1944
07:00 P.M.
Hello darling
I didn’t sleep a wink last night and thats [sic] not the name of a sog either. I got to thinking of you and I don’t know why…
Letter from Howard to Yvette, May 15, 1944
[The following is written on official United States Army stationary]
May 15, 1944
9:00 P.M.
Dearest Darling,
I love you. I love you. I love you. That’s how I feel to-night [sic]. It may sound funny to you but I just got back from…
Letter from Howard to Yvette, May 16, 1944
[The following is written on official United States Army stationary]
May 16, 1944
9:00 P.M.
Hi Darling:
You know when I mailed that letter to you last night I had it all sealed and then I saw the peice [sic] of paper with the…
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
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 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 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…
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