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Letter to Yvette from Howard, September 15, 1943
Camp Campbell, Ky. [Kentucky]
Sept. 15 1943
Hello Darling,
Well here I am again and awful lonesome and I do mean it. I’m on C.Q. [sic] again and theres [sic] no one to talk to and no music on the radio except hill-billy [sic] stuff and you…
Letter to Yvette from Howard, March 29, 1945
France
March 29, 1945
12:00 P.M.
Dearest darling wife,
Its [sic] very late to night [sic] so I’ll only write a very short note. I got about five letters from you to day [sic] and I want to go home more than ever. Darling if you want to know…
Letter to Yvette from Howard, March 27, 1945
France
March 27, 1945
10:00 P.m. [sic]
Dearest Yve,
I don’t mind being called a cabbage in french but in english is [sic] sounds kind of rough. I got that very mushy letter today and it [is] very natural to feel that way because I feel like that…
Letter to Yvette from Howard, October 1, 1945
Oct. 1, 1945
Monday,
Dearest darling Wife,
I’m so very happy an[d] lonely at the same time to night [sic] if anyone can be that way and I am so. Its [sic] because I got four beautiful letters from you to day [sic] and of course that made me want…
Letter to Yvette from Howard, May 12, 1945
May 12, 1945
Saturday
Dearest Yve.,
Well darling I just got back from swimming and feel one hundred percent better. We got a little stream a little way from the place I stay where the deepest water comes up to my neck and its [sic] pretty good…
Letter to Yvette from Howard, September 13, 1943
Camp Campbell, Ky. [Kentucky]
Sept. 13 1943
Hi darling,
Well here it is another blue monday [sic] and lots of work to do. I just had to go and draw some more tools for the shop and now I got to find a place to put them. First of all darling…
Letter to Yvette from Howard, October 22, 1942
Hi Darling,
It’s just me again. The weather down here is lousey [sic] it’s even raining to-day [sic]. You know what darling I’m stepping out to-night [sic] to dinner, if you won’t mind. I was in the U.S.J. last week and I met a young married…
Letter to Yvette's parents from Howard and Yvette, August 15, 1944
[Camp Campbell, Kentucky]
Dear Mother + Dad,
While Yvette is getting ready for bed I’m going to thank you for having allowed her to come see me. We are having a grand time to gether [sic] so it was worth that long trip. I also want to thank you…
Letter to Yvette from Howard, March 1, 1945 [EXAMPLE]
March 1, 1945
7:30 P.M.
Dearest darling wife & no kids,
Well darling I feel good today because I got about seven letters from you and one from mom. The last letter I got from you was dated the 11th of Feb. and I like that one the best. I…
Letter to Yvette from Howard, April 19, 1943 [EXAMPLE]
Camp Campbell, Kentucky
April 19, 1943
Hello darling:
Hows [sic] everything back home? As for me I think I’m going nuts. I got up this morning at four and had chow at four-thirty then I started my work for the day. That was allright [sic]…
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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