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Camp Campbell, Kentucky
July 25, 1943
Hello darling:
Well it[‘]s been a long time no see but I think I’ll make it yet. I think I’m going to be able to get home in Aug. [August] if nothing happens. I got the letter in which you said something like…

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…


Camp Campbell, Kentucky
June 6, 1943
8:30 PM
If you can read this I’ll give you a gold star. [At the top of the first page.]
Hi darling:
I know you must think I’m on a strike but you got to [sic] believe me when I tell you that I’ve been…

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]…

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…

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…

Fort Knox, Kentucky
Aug. 5, 1942
Hello Darling
How are you to-day [sic][?] You asked me in your letter to-day [sic] if I could tell you if I was coming home the 3rd week in Aug. for sure. I can’t tell you but I hope so. They already started to…

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.…

[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…

[The following is written on official United States Army stationary]

May 31, 1944

10:45 P.M.


Hello darling,

I’m sorry if I offended you by writing and telling my sister Betty that I would probably get my furlough around the tenth of…