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Camp Campbell, Kentucky
April 19, 1943
Hello darling:
How’s 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 alright until about…

Camp Campbell, Kentucky
April 16, 1943
Hello darling:
Well darling I guess we’re both in the same boat. I got a cold to[o] and I’ve been taking pills to[o]. It isn’t warm down here anymore. Yesterday we had a snow storm. I think I caught my cold…

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…

Fort Campbell, Kentucky
April 8, 1943
Hello darling.
How[‘]s everything? I got the package that you sent and everything in it was ok [sic]. I haven’t written for the past three or four days because I have been pretty busy. It’s got so down here…

Camp Campbell, Kentucky
April 5, 1943
Hello darling.
Well I got three letters to day [sic] and I’m sorry if I said anything in them (I mean my letter or letters to you) to hurt your feeling[s]. That would be the last thing I would ever want to do.…

Camp Campbell, Kentucky
April 4, 1943
Hi darling.
Well I just got the letter that your wrote March 30th and I still love you. Gee I wish I could go home at the same time that Norman has his furlough but one never knows. The army says training…

Camp Campbell, Kentucky
March 29, 1943
Yvette, darling:
Darling it was sweet of you to send me that picture of yourself. I sure miss you so much that now with three pictures of the most wonderful gal in the world [it] helps met overcome my lonely…

Camp Campbell, Kentucky
March 28, 1943
Hi Yve:
I just got the letter you wrote and in it you don’t seem to want me to come home right away, but if I get a furlough I have to come or wait for an other [sic] four or five months to get one. Darling…

Camp Campbell, Kentucky
March 25, 1943
Dear Yvette;
I just got another letter from you to-day [sic] and yes darling I can read that french that you wrote and I love you to [sic]. Darling I don’t think I’ll send you any money this pay day because…

Camp Campbell, Kentucky
March 23, 1943
Darling:
Well here I am. All alone in the commanding officer’s office working out my change of quarters, (CQ), in army language. Well to-morrow [sic] the company has off that means no duties but I’ll have to…