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Letter to Yvette from Howard, March 10, 1943
Hi Darling
How is everything back home? I got another letter from you today. Gee I wish I was there with you eating apple pie and ice cream. I wouldn’t be able to give up eating between meals because if I did that I would starve. You think your…
Letter to Yvette from Howard, April 11, 1943.
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…
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 from Howard to Yvette, June 1, 1944
[The following is written on official United States Army stationary]
June 1, 1944
11:50 P.M.
Hello beautiful;
How are you to-night [sic]? I went for my instructions again to-night [sic] and the chaplain is still waiting for the form…
Tags: family, furlough, instruction, letter
Letter to Yvette from Howard, March 5, 1944
Camp Campbell, Ky.
March 5, 1944
Hello Tall Blonde and Beautiful
How’s my little gal to night [sic]? Well here it’s Sunday and a day off from duty so I’m going to start off right by writing you first. Darling you asked me to send you…
Letter from Howard to Yvette, March 3, 1944
Camp Campbell, Ky.
March 3, 1944
Dear Daffy;
I just got your letter and got some time to answer it so here goes. Yes darling I’ll love you just as much no matter how tall you grow. Darling you talk about me getting a furlough in May or June…
Letter from Howard to Yvette, April 16, 1944
The following letter is written on official United States Army stationary]
Camp Campbell, Ky.
April 16, 1944
Hello little darling,
I still love you and even if you are a problem child you don’t know what a problem I’ll be. Well…
Tags: bivouac, Clothing, family, Military life, movie
Letter from Howard to Yvette, April 17, 1944
[The following letter is written on official United States Army stationary]
Camp Campbell, Ky.
April 17, 1944
Dear Halfpint,
Well hows [sic] every little thing to night [sic]? Gee I’m lonesome now but I guess I’ll get over it. The…
Tags: family, furlough, Military life, weapons
Letter from Howard to Yvette, May 3, 1944
[The following is written on Official United States Army stationary]
May 3, 1944
9:30 P.M.
Hi darling:
As you know I didn’t write to you last night and you have probably guess the reason why. Well I had to work late and I didn’t have…
Letter from Howard to Yvette, May 13, 1944
[The following is written on official U S O stationary]
May 13, 1944
Darling:
Well darling I’m going to see the chaplain to morrow [sic] after noon [sic]. I won’t be able to see him to-day [sic] because I can’t get off until seven thirty…
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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