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Letter to Yvette from Howard, July 7, 1945
Laufen
July 7, 1945
Dearest darling Wife,
Don’t worry darling if you don’t hear from me for a while because I won’t be able to write for a while because we will be moving and they won’t collect the mail there for [sic] I’ll travel as fast as the…
Letter to Yvette from Howard, July 6, 1945
Laufen
July 6, 2015
Dearest Yve.,
In answer to the letter I got from you to day [sic] I was not wounded in battle, I just had a little infection in my hand that that I got from a peice [sic] of steel but its [sic] ok now. I’ll show you it when I…
Letter to Yvette from Howard, December 14, 1945
Dec. 14, 1945
Friday
Dearest Yve + ?
Well darling to night [sic] I’m still in California and expect to be here for two or three more days but then I could be going east. You never can tell. Gee darling I love you so much and I want you more than…
Letter to Yvette from Howard, July 5, 1945
Laufen
July 5, 1945
Dearest Yve.,
Well darling its [sic] me again and I’m still alive. I’ve been on a driving detail for the last four days and really didn’t have time to sleep never mind write but now I got time. It was really a rough trip to…
Letter to Yvette from Howard, December 13, 1945
Dec. 13, 1945
Thursday.
Dearest little wife.
This morning we we’re [sic] married 1 ½ years and I keep loving you more and more all the time. I’m so glad we got married when we did and I love you so much hon. Things look terrible out here. …
Letter to Yvette from Howard, June 29, 1945
Laufen
June 29, 1945
12:10 A.M.
Dearest darling Yve.,
I’m writing very poorly to-night [sic] but it can’t be helped. I got my right hand all bandage [sic] up. I got an infiction [sic] in my hand and for two days was pretty bad and could’nt [sic]…
Letter to Yvette from Howard, June 26, 1945
Laufen
June 26, 1945
Dearest darling wife,
I’m sending you a negative of your no good husband that does nothing but sleep all day long. No kidding darling [Ed. Kaschule?] took that picture on one of those days that I couldn’t stay awake long…
Letter to Yvette from Howard, December 12, 1945
Dec. 12, 1945
Wednesday
Dearest Yve. + ?,
Well darling I’ve changed my mind again. I may not be out but I’ve still got hopes of being home for christmas the reason I’ve only got 51 points is that they just count them up until Sept. 2nd. If they…
Letter to Yvette from Howard, December 11, 1945
Dec. 11, 1945
Tuesday
Dearest Yve.,
Gee honey I love you so very much and you don’t know how much I need you, really its [sic] terrible I’m still sweating it out so they call in the army and its [sic] not doing too good. I don’t leave tomorrow…
Letter to Yvette from Howard, June 25, 1945
Laufen
June 25, 1945
12 00. P.M.
My darling Yve.,
I love you so very very much and I do so hope they send me home soon. The latest on going home is that I’ll be home before the first of september [sic] and its [sic] pretty official because we got…
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Postcard of Nurse Axness and the first patients at the Concordia College hospital, circa 1910
Postcard of Nurse Axness and the first patients, probably ailed by scarlet fever, at the Concordia College hospital, circa 1910