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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…

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…

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 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…

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. 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. 26, 1945
8:30 P.M.
Darling Yve.,
Just another day and I miss you so very much that I’ll never know what it’ll be like to be lonely when I get out of this army. Its [sic] worse than being over in France because when I was over there I knew I…

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Sept. 30, 1945
Sunday
Dearest darling Yve.,
Well here I am back from my three days in the wilds of hollywood [sic]. I had a very good time but it was so lonely without you. Everything would of [sic] been perfect if you were here but you were’nt…

Camp Campbell, Ky. [Kentucky]
Oct. 24, 1943
Hi Darling:
I guess I’ve been a little slow in writing, but with all this changing around there doing around here you can’t find time. The last three days. I’ve been out on night problems and to top it…