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Letter to Yvette from Howard, August 24, 1943.
Camp Campbell, Kentucky
Aug. [August] 24, 1943
8:30 PM
Hi darling:
Well I’m just getting over the train ride and I’m getting so darn lonely that I wish that I never came back. I guess it [is] no use of wishing because it won’t do any good. We…
Letter to Yvette from Howard, August 23, 1944
[Camp Campbell, Kentucky]
Aug. 23, 1944
6:45 P.M.
My darling Wife ,
Well I suppose you [are] back home now giving lessons every day now. Please darling don’t work too hard? I got to go out to-night [sic] around seven-ten so I haven’t much time…
Letter to Yvette from Howard, August 23, 1943.
Camp Campbell, Kentucky
August 23, 1943
9:30 PM
Hello darling:
Well here I am back in the old camp and I got two letters from you and one from Norman Proulx. Well I still love you more than ever. Darling, remember that fellow that we met in town…
Tags: assimilation
Letter to Yvette from Howard, August 22, 1944
[Camp Campbell, Kentucky]
Aug. 22, 1944
9:30 P.M.
Dearest Mummy,
I just got a card from you that you sent me Sunday night. You see I told you I’d get a card from you and darling I miss you so much too. But darling you know its [sic] a good thing…
Letter to Yvette from Howard, August 21, 1944
[Camp Campbell, Kentucky]
Aug. 21, 1944
9:00 P.M.
Dear Yvette,
Well as usual I’ve been out in the field to day [sic] doing a lot of dry-running and I was thinking of you all day. I kind of follow [ed] you on your trip all day to day. [sic] At six…
Letter to Yvette from Howard, August 20, 1944
[Camp Campbell, Kentucky]
Aug. 20, 1944
8:00 P.M.
Hi darling,
Well I’m back in the barracks now and am more lonelier than ever. I had an awful sinking feeling as I watched the train pull out of Clarksville and I felt like taking the next one…
Letter to Yvette from Howard, August 2, 1944
[Written on United States Army stationery]
[Camp Campbell, Kentucky]
Aug. 2, 1944
10 P.M.
Hello darling, I wrote a letter to you last night on bivouac and I got back to day [sic] and couldn’t find it so I guess you have to go one day without a…
Letter to Yvette from Howard, August 19, 1942
Fort Knox, Kentucky
Aug 19, 1942
Darling Yve
I love you. I don’t know when I’m coming home. In my last letter I did’nt [sic] think I would get a furlough at all and now I think I will get one. I was picked but to be the [illegible deletion]…
Tags: furlough
Letter to Yvette from Howard, August 17, 1942
Fort Knox, Kentucky
Aug 17, 1942
Hi Darling
How do you like Detroit? I’m glad you got my letter I was a little worried that you wouldn’t get it in time. I just got some bad news Sat. The First Sarg. said that it will be another month before we get…
Tags: Detroit, furlough, Military life
Letter to Yvette from Howard, August 15, 1942
Fort Knox, Kentucky
Aug. 15, 1942
Darling Yve
I sent you a letter by Air Mail and you should have got it by Thurs. I could’nt [sic] leave the Co. [Illeigelbe deletion] to send a telegram or call you up so I hope you got this it in time. I put in…
Tags: Doctor, furlough, Inspection, shot
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