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Sept. 25, 1945
Tuesday
Dearest Yve.,
Well another day gone by and it gets worse all the time. I got your telegram and I want you to come so bad but it [sic] no use I can’t find a place anywhere. Its [sic] really terrible out here. People around…

Sept. 24, 1945
Monday
My darling Yve.,
Gee I love you I love you I love you. That’s [sic] all I can think of to say. I want you and I need you so very much I don’t know how I even got along with out you before we we’re [sic] married and gee I so…

Sept 23 1945
7:00 P.M.
Dearest darling Yve.
Well its [sic] me again and darling I still want to go home. They can keep sunny Calif. if they want it but give me Southbridge. I saw Santa Barbara yesterday and its [sic] bigger than [Hopkinville?] but…

Hell-hole
Calif
Sept. 21, 1945
Hi Woman of my dream [sic],
Gee I love you so. I just can’t live without you anymore. I’m just a home guy I guess. I don’t think I’ll even get a furlough but I got a chance to go to town to morrow [sic] so if I see…

Sept. 20, 1945
Thursday
Dearest darling Yve.,
Gee I miss you so very very much. Every day it seems to get worse. I’m not doing anything thats [sic] why the days seem so long. Now they talk about giving furloughs & passes but look where I am. If…

Camp Cooke, Calif
Sept. 19, 1945
My Dearest darling,
Gee I miss you so very very much and I don’t like it out here at all and darling there is no place here for a wife. I wish there was though because I want you so much. Gee darling I hope I don’t…

[The following is written on USO stationary. At the top of the front side of each page, there is a picture of a waving flag emblazoned with “U S O”. Along the bottom of the front of each page is typed the names of various organizations followed by “U…

Fort Devens
Sept. 11, 1945
Hi darling,
No News [sic] as yet but it doesn’t look as though we will stay here very long, and you know how I hate train rides. I guess that I won’t be able to get a pass either because the officer in charge told me…

Fort [Devens?]
Sept. 10, 1945
Hello darling,
Gee I miss you so much already that its terrible. I though [sic] it would be like last time but it wasn’t. How are you making it? I tried all day to get a pass out of this place but no soap they said no…

Near [Deippe?] France
July 22, 1945
Dearest Yve.,
Well it [sic] me again and I didn’t expect to be here so long or I would’nt [sic] of [sic] told you to stop writing. We are now at a camp called [Lucky Strike?] if it means anything to you. To me…