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Letter to Yvette from Howard, August 9, 1943.
Camp Campbell, Kentucky
August 9, 1943
11:00 PM
Hello darling:
Well darling I guess you think I forgot all about you but I didn’t. You see, I had to go back to the feild [sic] to finish up some training before I leave on furlough. By the way, you…
Tags: furloughs
Letter to Yvette from Howard, August 5, 1943.
Camp Campbell, Kentucky
August 5, 1943
Hi darling: Well how are you to-day [sic]? You probaly think it’s funny that I’ve haven’t written to you lately but it [is] only because I’ve been through a week of (hell) last week. I had to use that word but…
Tags: combat training
Letter to Yvette from Howard, July 27, 1943.
Camp Campbell, Kentucky
July 27, 1943
Hello darling:
Just a few lines to let you know I still love you. To night [sic] I got a terrible headache and I’m going to bed as soon as I finish writing this letter. Well darling by this time you are at the…
Letter to Yvette from Howard, July 25, 1943.
Camp Campbell, Kentucky
July 25, 1943
Hello darling:
Well it[‘]s been a long time no see but I think I’ll make it yet. I think I’m going to be able to get home in Aug. [August] if nothing happens. I got the letter in which you said something like…
Letter to Yvette from Howard, July 19, 1943.
Camp Campbell, Kentucky
July 19, 1943
Hi kid:
How do you like my writing paper? I’ve been so busy in [the] army for the past week. I don’t know what [is] going to happen next. I had a chance to get to town so that accounts for the writing…
Letter to Yvette from Howard, July 12, 1943.
Camp Campbell, Kentucky
Monday
July 12, 1943
Hello darling:
Well here I am again after a good day [of] work. I just shaved and had a shower and feel like going out and raise [sic] ---- [intentional blank in place of “hell”] but it will have to…
Letter to Yvette from Howard, July 11, 1943.
Camp Campbell, Kentucky
Sunday
July 11, 1943
Hell darling:
How’s my little wife to-day [sic]? Do you still love me a little? I lmpw I’ve been a bad boy for not writing last night when I came in off the reange but there was a reason. It was…
Tags: policy, recreation
Letter to Yvette from Howard, July 8, 1943.
Camp Campbell, Kentucky
July 8, 1943
Hello darling:
I haven’t heard from you for three days now are you mad? I’ve been out on a little camping trip as they say in civilian life and just got back. Darling you seem to think I don’t want you to go to…
Letter to Yvette from Howard, July 5, 1943.
Camp Campbell, Kentucky
July 5, 1943
Yvette, darling:
Well to-day [sic] was hot too but I feel better after a nice cold shower and not the kind that you get when you get married. I was out on the range all day today and wasted a lot of bullets…
Letter to Yvette from Howard, July 1, 1943.
Camp Campbell, Kentucky
July 1, 1943
Hello Frenchy:
How are you doing? I’m fine I just got back from two days in the field and had a nice cold shower. What more could a guy ask except the impossible like asking for someone like you to be here…
Tags: Routine, sleep depravation, theatre
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