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Germany
Saturday
April 14, 1945
Dearest Yve.,
Well darling here I am on guard again and it [sic] very nice work, thats [sic] if the weathers [sic] nice. If you want to know all about my travels I’ll tell you when I get back home which I hope…

Camp Campbell, Kentucky
April 14, 1943
Hello darling:
I love you so much and I wish I could see you. I didn’t write to you last night because I had to move all my stuff (such as clothes and bed) down to the motor pack up. You see, I’m back at my…

Germany
Friday
Dearest Yve.,
Well darling here it is ten months of married life and most of it in the army. The mail just came in and still no letters or packages from you yet. They’ll probably catch up in time but these long waiting periods are…

Camp Campbell, Kentucky
April 11, 1943
Darling:
I’m sorry to hear about your grandmother and I hope that she get[s] well again and I’ll pray every-night [sic] for her and darling I love you so very much. My mother wrote me that you stopped in the…

Camp Campbell, Kentucky
April 1, 1943
Hi Yve:
Well here it is: the April fool’s day and no luck. I went to the first Sgt. [Sergeant] to day [sic] and asked for a furlough and he blew up, so when he finished I said April fool, then he was mad.…

Camp Campbell, Kentucky
March 22, 1943
Hi Eve.
I feel good to-day [sic]. I just got three letters from you. One dated the 17th, one the 18th, and the other one the 19th. So you see that there’s a hold up [sic] in the mail somewhere between here…

Camp Campbell, Kentucky
March 18, 1943
Hello darling:
I just got the letter that you wrote the 15[th] of this month and I still love you. Well it[‘]s raining like the Devil to-day [sic] and I got wet twice. Well I’m quarantine[d] with the measles…


Camp Campbell, Kentucky
April 23. 1943
Darling:
Thanks for the box of candy I got to-day [sic]. It’s been quite a while since I had any good candy. You see, down here they got us rationed to[o]. All we can eat is two bars of candy a day at the…

Saturday Oct. 21, 1944
Dearest darling wife,
Well as you know by now I didn’t get my furlough today so I guess it will be next saturday [sic]. I’m telling you it was close though. The first Sgt. had the furloughs all made out and mine had fourteen…

Jan 31, 1945
8:30 P.M.
Hi Darling,
Well its me again and am [sic] the same as ever. I feel fine and eat plenty outside of that I can’t tell you much and anyway you know what I write don’t make any sense at all. Well darling I haven’t heard from…