Letter to Yvette from Howard, July 22, 1945
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Letter to Yvette from Howard, July 22, 1945
Description
Howard complains about the camp he is stationed at, saying the only good thing there is the Red Cross. He talks about swimming in the ocean and how life is at this camp. He also talks about being able to go back home for thirty days and where he will go after that time is up.
Creator
Sarty, Howard L., 1919-1977
Source
Harvey, Gretchen (donor)
Publisher
Courtesy of the Concordia College Archives
Date
1945-07-22
Contributor
Tommerdahl, Maria (digitization, transcription, metadata)
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This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License
Format
Correspondences
Language
English
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Text
Identifier
1945-07-22
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Near [Deippe?] France
July 22, 1945
Dearest Yve.,
Well it [sic] me again and I didn’t expect to be here so long or I would’nt [sic] of [sic] told you to stop writing. We are now at a camp called [Lucky Strike?] if it means anything to you. To me its [sic] nothing but a dusty air feild [sic] made into a camp. there’s [sic] nothing here to do no place to go and in other words it [sic] hell. Just ask anyone who’s been located here and they’ll tell you all about it.
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There’s only one thing they got here thats [sic] any good and thats [sic] the red-cross and their [sic] [doughnut?] and coffee stand but just now theres [sic] about six hundred [g.I.?] waiting in line. Friday the red cross took a few of us guys down to the beach for the after noon [sic] and I really enjoyed swimming in the salt water. It was a big beach at [Deippe?] and of course we had a lunch and [then?] came back to the dust again. We all live in tents and if you wake up in the morning with out [sic] any dust on you its [sic]
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a miracle. We generally have at least a ¼” all over us when we get up. Then our outfit is chicken and make us have a training schedule every day. Of course we were told that when we hit a redeployment sentry that all training would cease for the short time we would be there but this outfit is different. Well darling You [sic] ought to be on your vacation by now and don’t worry about me getting home before you get back because I won’t, it will be in Aug. before I get there. The reason I haven’t been writing is because I our postal system has closed as
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far as out going [sic] mail is concerned but we still get the in coming [sic] mail this letter will probably go throu [sic] camp [hdg.?] on the [post?]. I’ll be leaving sometime this week so it will be another week and a half before I hit the states. Well there really is’nt [sic] much more to tell about me over here and I can’t wait till [sic] I get home. I love you so very much and we have a nice thirty days to gether [sic] if you don’t get tired of me before its [sic] over. I know I won’t anyway. I think it will be [california?] when I get back. I don’t know what the deal is yet but I’ll let you know when I do. I love you. as Ever,
Howard
[The following is written as a postscript.]
P.S. I love you most mummy.
July 22, 1945
Dearest Yve.,
Well it [sic] me again and I didn’t expect to be here so long or I would’nt [sic] of [sic] told you to stop writing. We are now at a camp called [Lucky Strike?] if it means anything to you. To me its [sic] nothing but a dusty air feild [sic] made into a camp. there’s [sic] nothing here to do no place to go and in other words it [sic] hell. Just ask anyone who’s been located here and they’ll tell you all about it.
[Page 2]
There’s only one thing they got here thats [sic] any good and thats [sic] the red-cross and their [sic] [doughnut?] and coffee stand but just now theres [sic] about six hundred [g.I.?] waiting in line. Friday the red cross took a few of us guys down to the beach for the after noon [sic] and I really enjoyed swimming in the salt water. It was a big beach at [Deippe?] and of course we had a lunch and [then?] came back to the dust again. We all live in tents and if you wake up in the morning with out [sic] any dust on you its [sic]
[Page 3]
a miracle. We generally have at least a ¼” all over us when we get up. Then our outfit is chicken and make us have a training schedule every day. Of course we were told that when we hit a redeployment sentry that all training would cease for the short time we would be there but this outfit is different. Well darling You [sic] ought to be on your vacation by now and don’t worry about me getting home before you get back because I won’t, it will be in Aug. before I get there. The reason I haven’t been writing is because I our postal system has closed as
[Page 4]
far as out going [sic] mail is concerned but we still get the in coming [sic] mail this letter will probably go throu [sic] camp [hdg.?] on the [post?]. I’ll be leaving sometime this week so it will be another week and a half before I hit the states. Well there really is’nt [sic] much more to tell about me over here and I can’t wait till [sic] I get home. I love you so very much and we have a nice thirty days to gether [sic] if you don’t get tired of me before its [sic] over. I know I won’t anyway. I think it will be [california?] when I get back. I don’t know what the deal is yet but I’ll let you know when I do. I love you. as Ever,
Howard
[The following is written as a postscript.]
P.S. I love you most mummy.
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Sarty, Howard L., 1919-1977, “Letter to Yvette from Howard, July 22, 1945,” Concordia Memory Project, accessed November 1, 2026, https://concordiamemoryproject.concordiacollegearchives.org/items/show/1042.