Letter to Yvette from Howard, July 12, 1944
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Title
Letter to Yvette from Howard, July 12, 1944
Subject
Military life, Love letters
Description
He tells Yvette of the terrible conditions they are living with. He tells her it is hot and they are all very dirty. He also tells her how much he would like to see her again.
Creator
Sarty, Howard L., 1919-1977
Source
Harvey, Gretchen (donor)
Publisher
Courtesy of the Concordia College Archives
Date
1944-07-12
Contributor
Miller, Christine (digitization, transcription, metadata)
Rights
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License
Format
Correspondences
Language
English
Type
Text
Identifier
1944-07-12
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Original Format
Correspondences
Text
[Written on United States Army stationery with the following quote from the Bible in the top left corner]
“For Christ also hath once suffered for sins, the just for the unjust, that He might bring us to God.” 1 Peter 3:18
July 12, 1944
10:00 P.M.
Dear Mummy,
Well its [sic] me again and it [sic] been a pretty tough day hot in the morning and to night the water truck did show up and I’m telling you every body [sic] so dirty they stink and I don’t mean smell bad either. Just before we pitch [sic] tents to night [sic] it started to rain and I got pretty wet so my clothes are still just as
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wet as they were an hour ago so I [am] in my tent dressed in a towel. I’m now writing to you holding a flash light [sic] and paper in one hand and writing with the other but darling I love you just the same. I wish I could see you darling this is the last of four days in the field and we got [sic] two more to go. I hope you are having a good time and as long as pop is there it [sic] O.K. I love you darling and I [have] got to quit for to night [sic] but I’ll try to write you a nice long letter to morrow. [sic] I love you. As ever,
Howard
[The following was included as a postscript]
P.S. I love you mummy
[The following was a quotation typed on the bottom of the stationery]
“But God commendeth His love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us… Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved”-- Romans 5:8, Acts 16:31
“For Christ also hath once suffered for sins, the just for the unjust, that He might bring us to God.” 1 Peter 3:18
July 12, 1944
10:00 P.M.
Dear Mummy,
Well its [sic] me again and it [sic] been a pretty tough day hot in the morning and to night the water truck did show up and I’m telling you every body [sic] so dirty they stink and I don’t mean smell bad either. Just before we pitch [sic] tents to night [sic] it started to rain and I got pretty wet so my clothes are still just as
[Page 2]
wet as they were an hour ago so I [am] in my tent dressed in a towel. I’m now writing to you holding a flash light [sic] and paper in one hand and writing with the other but darling I love you just the same. I wish I could see you darling this is the last of four days in the field and we got [sic] two more to go. I hope you are having a good time and as long as pop is there it [sic] O.K. I love you darling and I [have] got to quit for to night [sic] but I’ll try to write you a nice long letter to morrow. [sic] I love you. As ever,
Howard
[The following was included as a postscript]
P.S. I love you mummy
[The following was a quotation typed on the bottom of the stationery]
“But God commendeth His love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us… Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved”-- Romans 5:8, Acts 16:31
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Sarty, Howard L., 1919-1977, “Letter to Yvette from Howard, July 12, 1944,” Concordia Memory Project, accessed November 1, 2026, https://concordiamemoryproject.concordiacollegearchives.org/items/show/1082.