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[Camp Campbell, Kentucky]
Aug. 25, 1944
8:30 P.M.
Hello darling,
Its [sic] just me again and I’m pretty dirty in fact I haven’t had a shower yet, but as soon as I write this letter. Well darling I’m still waiting to hear from you darling and I’m…

[Camp Campbell, Kentucky]
Aug. 27, 1944
Sunday
4 P.M.
Dearest Yvette,
Well darling I didn’t write last night because when I got in it was too late. We went out last night to dryrun a problem and it was morning when we got back. You see it was a…

Fort Knox, Kentucky
Oct. 14, 1942
Darling Yve
This is me again and I don’t feel so hot. I just came back from the dentist and I had five teeth pulled. I’m gold bricking to-day [sic] that’s the term we use down here when a guy like me don’t feel…

[Camp Campbell, Kentucky]
Aug. 28, 1944
8:30 P.M.
Dear Yve.,
Its just me again and I’m on duty to-night. [sic] It seems that it’s my turn to drive guard to-night [sic] so here I am with a little peep (the same one you rode in when you came out to…

[Camp Campbell, Kentucky]
Aug. 29, 1944
9:45 P.M.
Hi Yve.,
What are you doing to-night? Well I’m just about ready to go to bed, but now I’m up in my squad leaders room and writing. You see the light went out and the sgt. being a good egg said I…

Fort Knox, Kentucky
Oct. 15, 1942
Hi Yve
How have they been treating you back home[?] I got a couple of boys around me bothering me. They keep telling me that you are going out and everything while I’m in the army but I keep telling them that I…

[Camp Campbell, Kentucky]
Aug. 30, 1944
9:00 P.M.
Dear Yvette,
Its [sic] only me again and just as lonely as ever. I just got through with one of those may [sic] reading classes and I went back to the barracks to write a letter but just as I…

Fort Knox, Kentucky
Oct. 20, 1942
Hi Darling
It me again I glad my Mother calls you one of the family because you will soon be if you don’t change your mind. I don’t think much of phil girl but I not much of a judge of other people gals I only saw…

Fort Knox, Kentucky
Oct. 21, 1942
Hi Darling
I feel swell now since I got your letter. I sure hope [N]orman comes down here because I sure want to see you even more than you want to see me. I went to bed early last night and I had a wonderful…

Fort Devons, Massachusetts
May 2nd, 1942

Dear Yvette
Everything is ok so far. I got here about 2 O’clock [F]riday and had quite a time finding my way around. Everybody is OK up here so far. Saturday morning we got up at 4 O’clock and showered,…