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Letter to Yvette from Howard, October 10, 1943
Camp Campbell, Ky. [Kentucky]
Oct. 20,1943
Hello Sweet Stuff
How are you to-night [sic]?Its [sic] been so long since I’ve seen you that I can’t make up my mind wether [sic] to go home on a pass and see you or just look at your picture. Darling I…
Letter from Howard to Yvette, June 6, 1944
June 6, 1944
10:00 P.M.
My Best girl,
Well how are you to night [sic]? I just got back from the chapel and I have a letter from the chaplain stating that I’ve received the necessary instruction but I still have to find that form. I got to…
Tags: chapel, family, instruction, marriage
Letter to Yvette from Howard, September 27, 1942
Fort Knox, Kentucky
Sept 27, 1942
Darling
I’m sorry to hear that you don’t feel so good but that can’t be helped. I wish it could be for you[r] sake though. Gee I miss you a lot, it seems longer this past month than it did all the rest of the time…
Letter to Yvette from Howard, October 18, 1943
Camp Campbell, Ky. (Kentucky)
Oct. 18, 1943
Hello Darling,
Well here I am again. I’m sorry I couldn’t write yesterday as I promised but I had a good reason. You see Our dear General (Hanek) Henery is leaving us so they put on a big parade and the…
Letter to Yvette from Howard, July 1, 1944
[Written on United States Army Stationery]
[Camp Campbell, Kentucky]
July 1, 1944
10:15 P.M.
My darling Wife,
Here I am sitting down at the desk looking at you and thinking how nice it would be to be home with you now. Gee darling I miss you…
Letter from Howard to Yvette, June 5, 1944 11:00 PM
June 5, 1944
11:00 PM.
Dear Yvette,
I guess I’m having my troubles. I went to the chaplain to-night [sic] and no form. You see all the mail for chaplain Monahan [?] was supposed to be sent to Chaplain Teller but it seems that chaplain…
Letter from Howard to Yvette, June 5, 1944 10:00 AM
June 5, 1944
10:00 A.M.
Dear Yve;
This is just going to be a little note. I’m sending my blood test with it and I guess I’m O.K. It seemed as if I went to everybody in the general hospital’s staff to get it signed. Gee darling I love you…
Tags: blood type, chaplain
Letter to Yvette from Howard, September 27, 1942
Fort Knox, Kentucky
Sept 27, 1942
Darling
I sorry for what I said in the letter yester day [sic] but I could’nt [sic] help it. If it was’nt [sic] for you I would go oversea’s [sic] to-morrow [sic] but I don’t want to if I can have you. I love you…
Tags: Military life, Pregnant
Letter from Howard to Yvette, June 4, 1944
[The following is written on official United States Army stationary]
June 4, 1944
11:00 P.M.
Hello darling,
Gee darling I don’t know what we can get Paslins + Warren [?], I wish I could see you for just a little while. You seem so…
Tags: blood type, chaplain, homesick, marriage
Letter from Howard to Yvette, June 4, 1944
[The following is written on official United States Army stationary]
June 4, 1944
Hello darling,
In about one week I’ll be home and it seem[s] to[o] long to wait. Darling I love you so very much but some times [sic] you don’t seem to…
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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