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May 15, 1945
Tuesday 10:30 P.M.
Hello darling,
Well here I am again and gee I feel swell. I only wish you were here with me and everything would be perfect. Right now I’m alone in our room, all the other two guys are on guard until twelve so its…

[Written on United States Army Stationery]
[Camp Campbell, Kentucky]
July 3, 1944
Hello Darling,
Its [sic] only me again and gee how I miss you. To day [sic] I was out on the field and up came a big hail storm and I’m not kidding when I say the…

May 17, 1945
Thursday
Dearest darling wife & no 12 points,
I just got that letter you wrote where the war was over and there’s one thing I’d like to see and that is how to sleep on both ears at one time. You’ll have to show me when I get home. In…

[Written on United States Army Stationery]
[Camp Campbell, Kentucky]
July 4, 1944
9:00 P.M.
Hi Yve,
This is a very nice way to spend the fourth of July isn’t it? I’ve been out on the field all day and now to morrow [sic] five of us drivers are…

[In the next letter, Howard notes that this letter was misdated. It should have been dated May 19th.]
May 18, 1945
8:30 P.M.
Hello darling,
I’m sorry I didn’t write to you last night but I had to take the St. to Bn. Helg. and didn’t get back…

[Camp Breckinridge, Kentucky]
July 5, 1944
19:00 P.M.
Hello sweet stuff,
Well here I am on the first stop of the convoy to fort Ben. Harrison, I am now at camp Breckinridge, Ky. and everythings [sic] fine so far. We pulled in here around six…

May 20, 1945
Sunday
Hello darling,
I love you I love you I love you. Thats [sic] the way I feel to-day [sic]. I could go for some of that mushy mush right now to [sic]. You don’t know or wouldn’t know just how I feel but you have a good idea.…

[Written on Post Service Club stationery]
[Fort Benjamin Harrison, Indiana]
July 6, 1944
Hi Kid,
Well how’s everything with you back home? Are you still keeping the home fires burning? Well we finally arrived at Fort Harrison and its [sic] very…

May 21, 1945
Monday
Dearest darling wife,
Well hows [sic] my sweet little potato to night [sic]? Sho nough [sic] honey I loves [sic] you so darn much. You see I’m in the south now (South of Germany) but they don’t talk that way here. All kidding…

May 22, 1945
Yve darling,
I’m lonesome. Won’t you please come and cheer me up a little. Its [sic] been raining all day to-day [sic] and it make [sic] me feel this way. Darling I’ll be so glad when we’re to gether [sic] again I’m so darn sick of…